Registry Refresh

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Lee

Does anyone know of a way to force a refresh or reload of
the registry without a logoff or reboot. We need to push
out a registry key change which normally would not take
effect until the user logs off or reboots - we're hoping
that we can force the change immediately.

Thanks
 
create a ".ini" file
and run it with regini <filename>
it will change effect without rebooting.
 
Lee said:
Does anyone know of a way to force a refresh or reload of
the registry without a logoff or reboot. We need to push
out a registry key change which normally would not take
effect until the user logs off or reboots - we're hoping
that we can force the change immediately.

Thanks
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Open Folder Options and select the File Types tab - i'm 90% sure this forces
Windows to reload the Registry into memory.

Martin.
 
The registry updates itself. As to if anything cares that is up to the individual program. Some things are read when a program starts and others everytime it's used.

This is not a registry issue. This is a whatever program that uses the setting issue.
 
use ctrl+alt+del to bring up the TaskManager.Highlight the explorer.exe
process and click end task (Don't close TaskManager yet!) .Now go to
file/new task and write "explorer" without the quotes and click ok.. Done!
 
Lee:
Were you able to find a working solution to your query?

I am in the same situation and looking for the same solution, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank You
Malcolm
 
I was having the same problems. In my case it was trying to add a printer via a command line after importing the registry settings for a TCP/IP printer port.

The PrintUI/Add printer wizard would not pick up the new port.

I fixed this by adding a restart to the print spooler command.

Thus by restarting the service it refreshed the registry settings for that service.
 
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