Registering exe files

Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Asked 10 years, 11 months ago. Active 3 months ago. Viewed k times. Improve this question. HK1 HK1 Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. This answer is almost always the wrong one. At the very least it is incomplete. Then, match that Custom install step with an uninstall step that removes only your dir from the PATH variable. KimGentes well that's a problem with the uninstaller.

A good uninstaller should tidy up nicely. It doesn't make the answer wrong. I agree.. If one follows the directions exactly, they will always run into this issue, which means, the solution should probably always include that caveat.

No install packages take care of installing and uninstalling sections of Registry entries or ENV variables that I know of, although please let me know if there is some I don't know of. Raymond Chen has covered why this is bad : a global solution to a local problem; b PATH has a length limit you may reach; c slows down all program starts due to larger HDD search space; d hard to undo on uninstall.

Show 4 more comments. Windows 10, 8. ThatGuyRob 12 12 bronze badges. AmiNadimi AmiNadimi 4, 1 1 gold badge 31 31 silver badges 49 49 bronze badges. This is the only answer that helped me. I would add that "restarting the system" isn't necessary.

Simply restarting the cmd would suffice. For this to work, I also did what is described in the answer provided by Ben Voigt in this thread — thymaro. Usage: linkerd [command] Available Commands: check Check the Linkerd installation for potential — Vinay. Andreas Rejbrand Andreas Rejbrand 99k 8 8 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. However, it has always worked with the start command, so you can type start myexe in a cmd.

But myexe alone shouldn't work, I think unless you are in the directory of myexe or that directory is in the PATH environment variable. I simply make a small myprog. This key works to run from Explorer. Obligatory Old New Thing article. Show 2 more comments. Daniel Schneller Ben Voigt Ben Voigt k 38 38 gold badges silver badges bronze badges.

Do you mind adding an example of such an batch-file - would be nice? I feel like this is the best option, I didn't want to add too many stuff to path variable. I'll edit into this answer example of such batch file. The problem I'm having with this is it starts a new shell. Johann: Take out the start "" and just begin with the path to the executable.

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When this option is turned on, the column names are added as the first line when you export to csv or tab-delimited file. Added sorting command-line options. Added Re-Register files option - Allows you to register again files that already registered.

For fixing problems with registrations Fixed some problems with the 'Unregister Selected Files' option. Added 'Open Folder' option. Added 'Register File' option. Added x64 version. This option can be useful if you want to clean the same registered files in multiple machines. Added more accelerator keys. Fixed bug: The main window lost the focus when the user switched to another application and then returned back to RegDllView.

Explore and learn how to leverage its powerful GUI. Logout Register. Register exe file. Regards Swati. Re: Register exe file Wed Sep 16, pm Hello Swati, In the Registration Tab from the file properties you can set the registration options for the related file. Let us know if that helped. Best regards, Dan. But if I try to register vb6.

Re: Register exe file Mon Sep 21, am Hi Swati, Can you please tell us if the related file needs to be registered? Can you register it outside the installation package from command line e. Best regards. It works with regsvr I am giving my application to third party users, and we can not tell them to manually register the exe.