[tex-live] FW: TeX Live file associations

[Siep Kroonenberg]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 01:15:43AM +0100, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> On 2012-12-04 at 13:19:06 +0100, Siep Kroonenberg wrote:
> 
>  > On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 09:54:26PM +0100, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
>  > > BTW, you recently asked for a way to look into the registry.
>  > > Alexander already proposed regedit.  However, examining the registry
>  > > with regedit is quite inconvenient.  But there is an export option
>  > > which allows you to export it to a text file which you can examine
>  > > with Emacs, for instance.  This file is quite large because it's in
>  > > UTF-16.  You can reduce the size by the factor two in Emacs:
>  > > 
>  > >    --> Options
>  > >      --> Mule (Multilingual Environment)
>  > >        --> Set Coding Systems
>  > >          --> For saving this buffer
>  > > 
>  > > and select utf-8.  In Emacs you can search forward and backward, even
>  > > using regexps, within Emacs.  The search function in regedit is
>  > > incredibly slow.  It's also much easier to paste an excerpt to the
>  > > mailing list from a text file rather than from a GUI tool.
>  > 
>  > For that matter, there are ubuntu packages reglookup and
>  > registry-tools for accessing windows registries.
> 
> Thanks, I wasn't aware of them, Gentoo Linux doesn't provide them.
> But I'm running Debian on a Raspberry Pi and "aptitude search" tells
> me that they are available.  But which file(s) contain the registry?

HKCU:
  %userprofile%/NTUSER.DAT

HKCU\Software\Classes (file associations) are in a separate file:
  %localappdata%\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat
    %localappdata% is an environment variable in w8 and maybe earlier,
    and corresponds to the registry value
    HKCU\Software\Microsoft\CurrentVersion\
      \Explorer\User Shell Folders\Local AppData
    and may have the value
      %userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data
    or
      %userprofile%\AppData\Local
HKLM:
  %SystemRoot%/System32/config/system
    for the system hive
  %SystemRoot%/System32/config/software
    for the software hive
  and other extension-less files in the same directory

-- 
Siep Kroonenberg