our system-administrator has installed visual studio 2008 on my pc and didn't enter our companys name. Now i have the problem, that I always have to change the name in the assembly-information manually, because the pc-manufacturer is automatically inserted to the assembly-informations. Does anybody know where I can change the default-values for the assemblyinformations in visual-studio, because I alway forget to change the company and copyright value.
Try this post. This will help you set the company name attribute permanently via registry.
Answer: Set the value of the registry key for HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\RegisteredOrganization For 64 bit OS, the registry key is HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\RegisteredOrganization
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An installation process for Java crashed.
When I try to restart the installation, I get the message that there is another installation still running.
Where is this flag and how can I reset it?
Try the tip number 6 from https://windowsreport.com/another-installation-already-progress-error-windows-10/#6.
Run regedit. Then find the keys "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsInstallerInProgress" and "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionInstaller" and locate the Default value and double click it. Delete the values from Data value field.
After making changes to your registry, you need to set the Startup type of the Windows Installer service to Disabled. After that, restart your PC and set the Startup type for Windows Installer to Manual.
I have a C# program which I made in Visual Studio. When I right click on my program executable in Explorer and click Properties>Details it says "Copyright © Hewlett-Packard Company". To troubleshoot I then created an empty Console Application, and it has the same copyright message.
Does anyone know how to fix this? I have tried some tutorials about regedit but they did not work.
Check out the Assembly Information dialog in your project properties.
In Solution Explorer you can right click on your project and select Properties. An Assembly Information button is in the Application tab.
I haven't tried this, but to change the default value, use regedit to modify
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\RegisteredOrganization
HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\RegisteredOrganization (x64 systems)
The answer by #Louis is correct. I'm just posting this to add some background information, and to vent my frustration at Hewlett-Packard for creating this stupid situation.
If you buy a Hewlett-Packard PC with Windows pre-installed (which is typical, unless you're in the IT dept. of a company that wipes the hard disk and installs a preconfigured disk image) then Hewlett-Packard has stupidly installed Windows with their name as the owner and owning organization.
Here are some links. I'm surprised there aren't even more frustrated customers complaining about this.
https://www.besttechie.com/forums/topic/11774-change-the-name-of-the-registered-owner-on-an-oem-machine/
https://www.groovypost.com/howto/howto/change-the-registered-owner-and-company-name-in-windows/
- see the comments
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/12fdb09b-472b-4634-991c-670e5f775365/upon-new-project-hewlettpackard-is-always-placed-in-the-assembly-company-name-field?forum=visualstudiogeneral
https://support.hp.com/in-en/document/bph05548
- is obsolete, doesn't include x64 registry entry
So the solution is to do this, as soon as you power up the new HP machine (otherwise this owner information will "pollute" all the programs you install):
Fix the RegisteredOrganization and RegisteredOwner registry information at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion
If it's an x64 machine (and all machines are now), also fix the RegisteredOrganization and RegisteredOwner registry information at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion
I'd imagine you're looking for the AssemblyInfo.Copyright Property. In order to modify this simply find the assembly.info class and modify it appropriately.
If you can't find it you can also use the Assembly Information Dialog as suggested by #Louis, which modifies the file for you.
I'm trying to run expression "blend" on my laptop, but when i run project i get an error message with the following solution:
I don't know where I'm supposed to do this.
I got the answer from an expression blend help forum.
I solved the problem as follows.
Using regedit.exe I navigated to th registry path
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment
and selected the key Platform. Platform had the value MCD.
Then I deleted only the value MCD. After this the key Platform was still there but empty. I closed Regedit, restarted my PC and run Blend 4.
I have set the following policy with gpedit in a Windows Server 2008 machine that has IE8:
I have a source that tells me that configuration resides in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Restrictions\NoExtensionManagement -- but that's a lie. There isn't even an Internet Explorer folder under Software\Policies\Microsoft.
Moreover, the same source says the setting is under "Computer Configuration\Network\Internet Explorer\Do Not Allow Users to enable or Disable Add-Ons" on gpedit. As you see above, that isn't true either.
OK, the "source" I'm talking about is the US Government: http://usgcb.nist.gov/usgcb/download_ie8.html -- namely, their IE8 OVAL definitions.
So, where in the registry is that setting?
It is an either/or. The policy can be implemented via the registry OR the GPO. You'll find your GPO where it is set in something like:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Group Policy Objects\{71DA9274-FD7B-4660-A801-B013570D3F5F}Machine\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Restrictions
or
HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-2090352725-1269969352-1905203885-2959\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Group Policy Objects\{71DA9274-FD7B-4660-A801-B013570D3F5F}Machine\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Restrictions
though the GPO itself is stored on disk, and not the registry ... I think here:
%systemroot%\System32\GroupPolicy
As far as where you'll find various settings in gpedit - it does depend on your version of windows.
After getting hit with some unwanted intrusive piece of software, I couldn't reset the IE8 settings on my Windows XP machine (yes, I know how old that is). Found the problem - the "Control Panel" settings had an additional registry entry in HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings
The zonemap under this registry key had 1803 disabled. That made three different entries for the same value in the registry. It wasn't IE8, it wasn't Group Policies. It was a rogue copy hidden in the HKLM that overrode other settings.
Symptom included that message "some settings controlled by Group Policy ..." Well, who's the group, exactly, on my tablet.
The Microsoft KB182569 is excellent. The only missing data was where to find the "unwanted" copy of zones.
i created a web setup project in vs 2008 and added some custom actions.
While installing i get the default forms (apppool, appname, website), some pre-defined custom forms and some selfmade custom forms.
Now while installation i add some data in the registry.
I have only one problem: TARGETSITE property.
This property is filled by default form (Context.Parameters["TargetSite"] is something like "/LM/W3SVC/1" for defaultWebSite) and its value properly added to the registry.
Everthing is fine until i use the repair function...
Whilst repairing, the first few default forms will be skipped by installation, therefore the TARGETSITE property will be empty (Context.Parameters["Targetsite"] is "").
Sadly i can not interfere with that to get the needed value from registry where i added it for exactly that reason.
Because the registry values will be updated before custom code is triggered in the "override Install" method.
Even onBeforeInstall is fired after the registry has been updated.
If a rollback is done, while repairing, the registry key will be reset to the correct value before, so i have to believe, that somehow i can access this value from within my custom action code.
Someone has any suggestion on how to get this important value?
P.S.:
i tried to set the condition within the registrykey, so that it would only be updated when the TARGETSITE value is not empty, but i´m afraid this will be ignored big time...
TARGETSITE != "" in the registry keys condition-field has absolutely no efect whatsoever...
I solved the problem by working around the installers registry key.
I manually create a subKey under the installers registryEntry, where I store my Context.Parameters["TARGETSITE"] value.
So the repair feature will not overwrite the keyValue because it´s a custom key.
Now I have my value either in the context or in the registry.
FunFacts:
When I create the customKey within the Installers own key, I take advantage of the standart meachnism, which delets the installers registry key and with that my customKey will also vanish.
Maybe this might help if someone else faces this problem sometime...