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Someone told me that if I need to know how a gui we are building would connect to an already installed program or a program installed after the gui we are building is installed that we should use regedit. I am not sure what this means. The context is that we want to build an application that can start (or possibly control) other applications installed. It will be a sort of dashboard.
Can anyone clue me in on what regedit has to do with this?
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If you are building a program, regedit would only be useful after the program is built and installed.  And you are trying to fix any bugs that the program created in the registry.  Regedit is a simple registry editing program.  It is very powerful when used correctly, But used in correctly it can make your machine non-bootable or very problematic.
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If your program is 32 bit and running on Windows 7 64 bit, you also need to check out this key as well:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall

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