The Sandman
Duplicate Registry Entries...
Thu Dec 17 17:51:28 1998


Greetings Princess,

As you have already found, the second key at: HKEY_USERS.DEFAULTSoftwareNetscapeNetscape NavigatorInitialize

Was deleted automatically when you deleted the First key..
Thats' because the keys in HKEY_USERS.DEFAULT are used as a kind of backup of the original keys used else where in our System Registry file. Noth the 'original' key and this 'backup' key are both tied into each other very closely..

REGMMON won't detect the creation of this 'second' key because this is performed by Windoz itself, rather than by a direct command from our target program. Good observation!

You can test this out for yourself using REGVIEW.. Unregister CYT completey then get REGVIEW to record your System Registry.. Then run CYT and exit. Now if you run REGVIEW and ask it to compare your System Registry file against the one it just saved you'll see that our 'second' duplicate key isn't recorded, yet it will exist..

It's highly possible that some software author WILL find a way to do insert this 'second duplicate key' without requiring the original key, in which case REGMON,REGVIEW won't show this!!..

Just a thought...

The Sandman