Reg2exe Changelog

What's new in Reg2exe 2.30 Beta 1

Dec 1, 2010
  • New: Created executables support full unicode file and registry access. The converter fully supports unicode registry files, but still uses ANSI file access/ IDE; See section Unicode for more infos
  • Chg: Vast code changes, and some assembly for fast unicode data processing.
  • Chg: Hex(4) limited to 4 bytes, because hex(4) means dword type.
  • Add: Option for startup confirmation / finished messagebox
  • Add: Hex(1), Hex(2) and Hex(7) data (REG_SZ, REG_EXPAND_SZ, REG_MULTI_SZ) ANSI/Unicode processing/ conversation, depending if it is REGEDIT4 or Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

New in Reg2exe 2.25a (Dec 1, 2010)

  • Add: Plenty of new substitutes
  • Add: Better Vista compatibility? (requestedExecutionLevel=highestAvailable

New in Reg2exe 2.25 (Dec 1, 2010)

  • Bug: 'File damaged' error on some converted files
  • Fix: stuff not working
  • Fix: quotes in commandline working
  • Add: Simple GUI for progress indication
  • Chg: Slightly improved conversation performance, at cost of some memory and delay before and after conversation itself
  • Chg: Slightly improved (faster) pre-conversation registry data preperation

New in Reg2exe 2.24 (Dec 1, 2010)

  • Fixed: Manually deleting keys / subkeys recursively (Win2k/XP compatibility)
  • Added [*HKEY_...] (Deletes all subkeys of the specified key)
  • Added [?HKEY_...] (Deletes all values in the specified key)

New in Reg2exe 2.23 (Dec 1, 2010)

  • Fixed: Program path detection fixed (registry read string procedure)

New in Reg2exe 2.22 (Dec 1, 2010)

  • Now published under the GNU General Public License
  • Fixed not replaced with matching path when lengths were equal
  • Added , , and (replaced in data with the matching absolute path)
  • Another check if registry data offset in converted exe-files really are registry data to prevent modified converted exe-files from importing 'nonsense' data
  • Converted executable supports @= (deletes / clears the 'default' value(Regsnap 1 compatibility)

New in Reg2exe 2.21 (Dec 1, 2010)

  • XP Skinning support
  • Created exes no longer showing 'beta 2'

New in Reg2exe 2.20 (Dec 1, 2010)

  • Warn when overwriting non-reg2exe exefiles on conversation
  • Writing to file error due file attributes no longer shows visual basic standard error message, but error message in progress bar control.
  • Fixed bug when deleting an item ("Sourcedir"=-)
  • 'REG-file not found' error instead of 'REG-file contains no data' when file does not exist
  • Rewritten 'selfreg.exe' in PureBasic
  • -> Your created exe's need no longer msvbvm60.dll
  • -> Way faster and just ~0.5 KB more size currently
  • Added support for writing values in a [-HKEY... key (Automatically creates and opens the folder after deleting when containing items; Have seen such a registry file a few days ago the first time...)
  • Now writing to top-keys is supported; Regedit supports it, so do I now.