Understanding Windows application footprint [closed] - windows

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Just wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction for documentations that specifies what a Window application's file footprint is?
More specifically, I am looking for a documentation that specifies what registry files (and which hive) and files/directories must be created when an application is installed.

#Raymond Chen is totally right, however, there are some pretty common places to put things in the registry\file system based on the programs needs. I.E. Does it start on login or start up? It really depends on how the program interfaces with Windows. Hopefully that points you in the right direction.

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Maximum # of up-to-date Prolog implementations with minimum overhead [closed]

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This is not directly a question regarding Prolog code, but rather about installing, administrating, and updating Prolog implementations...
Ideally, what I want to have on my machine is:
As many different Prolog implementations as possible
At all times, the most current (development) versions should be available
I might also want to have 2 or more versions side by side (stable / development)
A minimum overhead for installation, administration, etc.
I want to choose which Prolog implementation I use today after I start my machine up.
What can I do? What have you tried in this respect? I run Linux. Thank you in advance!

Why we need to worry about endianness if we are working in application level? [closed]

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Do we really need to worry about endianness, if we are working on application level which doesn't involve communicating with other machine?
Endianness is also an issue when reading files. All good file formats specify which endianness they are using when writing numbers directly. This is one reason that some people prefer non-binary formats.

Windows programs's system calls [closed]

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Is it possible to log all system calls made by a specified program? For example I have a GUI tool, wrapping some command-line based tools. I need to know how does it start command-line programs, what file manipulations is it doing. Actually I want to repeat this actions in integration purposes.
UPD: API Monitor did this job
CreatePorocessA API call - shows external programs and parameters selected process is calling
These things can be handy in case...
http://j00ru.vexillium.org/?p=1010
http://billauer.co.il/blog/2010/07/strace-ltrace-win32-api-dll/
Second one helped me in some other scenario.. Let me know whether it works for you or not...!!

How to create a burn folder? [closed]

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my app needs to both burn discs and create burn folders. i'm able to use the DiscRecording framework, and am delving into its many options for the burn disc methods, and am starting to get that, but i don't see any reference to creating a 'burn folder'.
i've also looked in NSFileManager (thinking that it was a key that needs to be set), and also searched the docs and this site for 'burn folder', with no result.
it's probably that i am overlooking something really obvious about how to do this programmatically.
will anyone shed some light here?
thanks.
Just create a directory with an extension of .fpbf.

Is there a performance hit when running obfuscated code? [closed]

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All,
I am proposing the addition of code obfuscation to the standard build process at my organization. One of the questions being asked is whether there is a performance hit to running obfuscated code vs. running unobfuscated code.
What is your experience? Have you seen a reduction in performance at runtime because you obfuscated your Java or C# code?
Thanks,
VI
It depends on how you are obfuscating it. If you use one of the tools that replaces all the names of objets and functions, then there should be no change at all. The compilers don't care what you call anything, whether it's useful to a developer (fetchProjects()) or just (funcA()).
You may wish to read about my over-obfuscation experiments: Impact of Flow Obfuscation on Performance.

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