[RESOLVED] Why Is This Stuff In My VB Registry Key?

I was reading this thread
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=626470
and decided to see what was in my VB Key. Oddly enough I found two items in there that have nothing to do with VB at all. One item ("Programming Editor") is my Microcontroller-Code Editor/Complier that uses .bas extensions, so I wasn't too surprised to find it there. The other one is "Messagepal", which is a LAN based messenger service. This one makes no sense to me at all.

Anyone have any idea why this would be in my VB Key?

Maybe it's a VB6 based app... ???

-tg

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Originally Posted by techgnome

Maybe it's a VB6 based app... ???

-tg

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I considered that but I have quite a few of my VB apps compiled to exe's and none of them are in there. Admittedly, none of my VB apps had a formal installation, which probably accounts for it.

It's only going to be there if they actually write to the registry... I have tons of VB-based apps too... they don't write to the registry... they have no settings... so there's no reg key for them.

-tg

Many VB-created apps that rely on registration keys, stored options persisted from instance to instance, etc, will write to the registry using VB's registry functions. Though API registry routines exist in so many ready-to-use classes nowadays, it's not as common to see settings stored in those registry keys an longer.

OK guys, I think that about wraps it.

Thanks.