VirtualReg Manager

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Current Version: 1.0.0.1

VirtualReg Manager is a utility which creates virtual registry files and is also able to edit them through a regedit-like interface. It provides command line support for automation. Feel free to include this application in your freeware. Since it’s a .NET assembly, it works on every Windows platform.

– VirtualReg Manager (Windows platforms)

The main form (VirtualReg Manager) of this tool provides the visual interface to create a virtual registry. This can also be achieved through command line, as we’ll see later. One can decide whether to virtualize a key along with its subkeys or not.

The virtual registry is an XML database. The format of this XML file looks like this:



  
    
      
        
          
            
              
                
                  F4240
                  AQAQAA==
                  1
                  YwA6AFwAAAA=
                
                
                  
                    
                      
                        
                          yEWDMkwyxgE=
                          ROfXLkwyxgE=
                          yEWDMkwyxgE=

Numbers are stored in hex format, whereas all other data is base64 encoded. The virtual registry file can be edited with VirtualReg Editor (vregedit), which is very user-friendly as its interface is identical to regedit’s one.

Creating a virtual registry from the GUI is okay for manual task, but tools can use the program’s command line to generate a virtual registry. In order to do that, a “.tovreg” file has to be passed as command line to the program. A tovreg file has this syntax:

[OPTIONS]
output="c:\....\fusion.vreg"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Fusion]
subkeys=true

As you can see, it’s a simply ini file. If the “subkeys” parameter is missing, then subkeys are not virtualized.

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