I have several questions about the structure of the COMPONENTS Hive. In case you don't know what I'm talking about: Code: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\COMPONENTS\DerivedData\Components Can someone explain me what some prefixes and Values are within some Windows-Component? Prefix: !i%componentid% !p%componentid% !s%componentid% !f means file I guess !c means something like the included/containing component(s). Values: CF ?? - most of the time it's 12 / 0xC Difference between appid and identity (one of them is present) S256 I guess is a hash. I appreciate any help.
Once you get past the wanna-be pirates and leeches, this board has got some of the best expertise I've found anywhere. I do not see HKLM\COMPONENTS in my registry at all. How are you seeing it?
I'm sorry I looked within my Win8 VM and took Win7 as reference. It could be possible that COMPONENTS isn't loaded regular within Win8. In Win7 it seems it always is loaded by default. Select/Highlight HKLM and than select "Load Structure" (hopefully translated right) and go to Code: %systemroot%\System32\config\COMPONENTS to load the hive. I admit here are very talented guys (Bob65536, kost, Daz and many more) but unfortunatly thoose guys (at least two of them) abandon this forum. My tries to get more in touch with SPP and some other stuff are become all dead end. Missunderstandings, no time / busy and so on are obviously more present than ever... - completly comprehensible Myrrh is damn right... and I know my question aren't regular ones but I try to proof some (very) interessting points. I'm not a coder/programmer/debugger (unfortunatly) and it frustrades me that I can't go any further without help from others. (I don't have the skills) I need some more inside information to get on going...
Under Windows 8.1 Enterprise, this subkey seems to exist (found during a RegShot comparison sourceforge.net/projects/regshot/ ) but it was not visible with RegEdit nor RegEd32... Are those subkeys volatile?? It also seems to be a different presentation of the data stored into HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Component Based Servicing ...not sure!
Passing references made to; HKLM\COMPONENTS (in e.g.Vista, Win7, WinPE X64... ) msfn.org/board/topic/150610-7customizer-components-xml/?view=findpost&p=990698 msfn.org/board/topic/49103-alternative-to-cmdow-hid/?view=findpost&p=736778 msfn.org/board/topic/98193-constant-error-messages/?view=findpost&p=665591 msfn.org/board/topic/114372-sigma-tel-driver-blocking-vista-sp1-update/?view=findpost&p=750248