Hive based registry for Windows CE 7 on Virtual PC?

Question

Can anybody explain (or post a working OS design) how to configure a hive based registry for Windows CE 7 on Virtual PC? I'm creating OS images that boot from VHDs that are similar to those that DiskPrep creates (http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/DiskPrep).

Now I'd like to have a hive based registry that is saved to the VHD as well, since this would greatly simplify certain testing/development tasks. Has anybody something like that gotten to work?

Cheers
Kartoffelsalat

Answer 1

Enable hive based registry under catlog file and de select ram based registry

 

Also verify following settings ...

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\init\BootVars]
    "Start DevMgr"=dword:1

   
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\StorageManager\Profiles\...]
    "MountAsBootable"=dword:1
    "AutoMount"=dword:1
    "AutoPart"=dword:1
    "AutoFormat"=dword:1
    "MountAsBootable"=dword:1
  
 

Regards,

Misbah

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Senior Design Engineer T.E.S Electronic Solutions (Bangalore-India) www.tesbv.com [e-mail]

Answer 2

Since the  VHD is treated as normal ATA Hard Drive in VirtualPC, so you can enable the hive-based registry by
set PRJ_ENABLE_FSREGHIVE=1 (for detail, trace the public\COMMON\oak\files\common.reg for the setting enabled by PRJ_ENABLE_FSREGHIVE flag) and http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee479112(WinEmbedded.70).aspx
Also the "Start DevMgr" has been deprecated and replaced by [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\init\BootVars\Init]
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee490554.aspx

Answer 3

I only got around to try this today, works fine. Thank you.

Answer 4

Hey

Can you show me how to do this in detail? I'm new to this program

Cheers