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Setting time out for registry
I have created a registry item in my java application. I want it to be removed after a specified time interval. It should be removed when if the program is not running also. Also it should be removed when the application is open and system got restarted.
How can I set the timeout??
How can I set the timeout??
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Of course you can use the maintainer application to remove the registry entries after some timeout as well. Just launch the maintainer application with an appropriate command line parameter when you main program quits. The maintainer app will just sleep for the time span specified, clean up the registry and exit. Naturally, this requires that the user doesn't shut down the system or kill the helper application in the meantime. You could avoid such by hiding the helper process and storing re-run information in the autorun registry keys but once again, too much effort for a simple program, too dubious for the user and I'm sure one or another virus scanner will falsely report a virus in your helper application :)