Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: RE : [Ethereal-dev] application path of ethereal in windows registry

["RABRET Laurent FTRD/DAC/ISS" <laurent.rabret@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There's also a straight and forward way that does not require any access
to the registry: the ShellExecute(...) system call. Just one constraint:
you must call a valid file that extension is associated to Ethereal.
Hummm, it seems there's no such an association created in the nsis
script so I propose a patch to automatically do this with '.cap'
extensions. Thanks to check in.
Regards
Laurent  

-----Original Message-----
From: ethereal-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ethereal-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ulf Lamping
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 5:20 PM
To: Etherealdevelopment
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] application path of ethereal in windows
registry

Ethereal development <ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb am 27.05.04
17:03:37:
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> On Thu, 27 May 2004, arshad khan wrote:
> 
> > I am trying to run ethereal from another
application(programmatically).
> > For that I want to have the path of installed ethereal in the
windows
> > registry. I have installed Ethereal 0.10.3 on windows XP as well as
on
> > windows 2000 server. On XP , I am able to find the path as follows:
> >
> > HKEY_CURENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/ShellNoRoam/MUICache
> 
> That is a key of which I had not previously heard.  I would strongly
> suggest *not* depending on any of the shell caches, as their content
is
> not guaranteed to be complete or stable.
> 

MUICache in not an "approved" method and *will* fail.

You could indirectly use the uninstaller string, which is in the same
dir as the ethereal.exe itself:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
"Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Ethereal\UninstallS
tring" 

This will point to the uninstall.exe, something like: "C:\Program
Files\Ethereal\uninstall.exe"

So you will have to remove uninstall.exe from this string and append
ethereal.exe, this should point to the exe file.

I would think, that this should work on all windows platforms, as the
installer don't distinguish between windows versions.

Regards, ULFL

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