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From: yawnmoth on 9 May 2010 00:24
I'm trying to better understand the registry and am having some
difficulty doing so.

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\TypedPaths
\url25

I delete that registry key using regedit and when I take my computer
out of hibernate it's back.

Any ideas as to what's going on?
From: Pegasus [MVP] on 9 May 2010 02:21


"yawnmoth" <terra1024(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:c9cb7b04-f626-4802-a614-26c9391c1e61(a)h9g2000yqm.googlegroups.com...
> I'm trying to better understand the registry and am having some
> difficulty doing so.
>
> HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\TypedPaths
> \url25
>
> I delete that registry key using regedit and when I take my computer
> out of hibernate it's back.
>
> Any ideas as to what's going on?

This sounds more like an operating system question (which OS?) than a
scripting question. Anyway, I suspect that the key does not get "undeleted"
but that it gets recreated by the OS. Why would you want to delete it? What
is its purpose?

From: Mayayana on 9 May 2010 10:02
That sounds like a Windows question, as Pegasus
said, not a VBScript question. For Windows
questions you can use a group like this:

microsoft.public.windows.vista.general
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general

And when you post you should mention the
Windows version as well as the IE version.

(Note that MS is dropping all newsgroups soon and
those won't exist. They're being cagey about exactly
when that will happen.)

If you want to clear IE history then why not just do
it in the Settings window? It sounds like there might
be some kind of cache that refreshes the settings
when deleted directly. I can't think of any reason for
Windows or malware to just replace specific URLs.

If you want to track what's writing the value, you
might be able to find it by using Process Monitor
available at sysinternals.com. (Personally I prefer
the separate Regmon and Filemon, but those have
been discontinued, so if you don't already have them
you probably can't get them.)

And finally, rather than struggle with all of that, why
not get a decent browser? IE is not fit for online use
to begin with.

| I'm trying to better understand the registry and am having some
| difficulty doing so.
|
| HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\TypedPaths
| \url25
|
| I delete that registry key using regedit and when I take my computer
| out of hibernate it's back.
|
| Any ideas as to what's going on?


From: yawnmoth on 9 May 2010 10:40
On May 9, 1:21 am, "Pegasus [MVP]" <n...(a)microsoft.com> wrote:
> "yawnmoth" <terra1...(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message
>
> news:c9cb7b04-f626-4802-a614-26c9391c1e61(a)h9g2000yqm.googlegroups.com...
>
> > I'm trying to better understand the registry and am having some
> > difficulty doing so.
>
> > HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\TypedPaths
> > \url25
>
> > I delete that registry key using regedit and when I take my computer
> > out of hibernate it's back.
>
> > Any ideas as to what's going on?
>
> This sounds more like an operating system question (which OS?) than a
> scripting question. Anyway, I suspect that the key does not get "undeleted"
> but that it gets recreated by the OS. Why would you want to delete it? What
> is its purpose?

The OS is Windows 7 Ultimate. And if the OS were recreating the key
how would it know what the old value was prior to my deleting it?
Like if it's value was abcdefg how would Windows know to recreate it
with a value of abcdefg after the computer was taken out of
hibernation?

As for why I want to delete it... it's mostly just an experiment. I
figure editing that part of the registry is likely not going to break
anything so I'm conducting some tests there before trying to mess
around with other parts of the registry. And thus far the experiment
seems to be a failure due to this totally inexplicable behavior.
From: Pegasus [MVP] on 9 May 2010 15:16


"yawnmoth" <terra1024(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:938be101-f16a-472c-b0bf-a68c91c9540a(a)k29g2000yqh.googlegroups.com...
> On May 9, 1:21 am, "Pegasus [MVP]" <n...(a)microsoft.com> wrote:
>> "yawnmoth" <terra1...(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:c9cb7b04-f626-4802-a614-26c9391c1e61(a)h9g2000yqm.googlegroups.com...
>>
>> > I'm trying to better understand the registry and am having some
>> > difficulty doing so.
>>
>> > HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\TypedPaths
>> > \url25
>>
>> > I delete that registry key using regedit and when I take my computer
>> > out of hibernate it's back.
>>
>> > Any ideas as to what's going on?
>>
>> This sounds more like an operating system question (which OS?) than a
>> scripting question. Anyway, I suspect that the key does not get
>> "undeleted"
>> but that it gets recreated by the OS. Why would you want to delete it?
>> What
>> is its purpose?
>
> The OS is Windows 7 Ultimate. And if the OS were recreating the key
> how would it know what the old value was prior to my deleting it?
> Like if it's value was abcdefg how would Windows know to recreate it
> with a value of abcdefg after the computer was taken out of
> hibernation?
>
> As for why I want to delete it... it's mostly just an experiment. I
> figure editing that part of the registry is likely not going to break
> anything so I'm conducting some tests there before trying to mess
> around with other parts of the registry. And thus far the experiment
> seems to be a failure due to this totally inexplicable behavior.

You would need to create a few keys of your own and populate them with data
of your own in order to home in on the issue. Yould should also check if the
issue is particular to hibernation or if the registry key gets
restored/recreated the moment you close regedit. And lastly, the forum
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7repair/threads would be a
far more appropriate place to discuss this question than a VB Scripting
newsgroup.

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