Thelonius,

The first key must be deleted before the second key. It's a requirement for a custom app I have acquired that will be run after deleting these keys. If I could, I would let you try out this app. If I manually delete the first key first and the second key second, the app will work correctly. If I manually delete second key first and the first key second, the app will not work correctly unless I reboot after deleting the keys (I am trying to avoid rebooting). I can see that the app creates the wrong registry keys if I delete the first and second registry keys in the wrong order, or if I delete these keys with TieRegistry (in any order).

When any registry key is deleted manually, something happens with the system afterwards that does not happen when you delete a registry key with TieRegistry. Perhaps "Lazy flushing" occurs? I don't know.

Maybe if I use Flush correctly after deleting the first key this will work, but I still haven't figured it out. What does this mean: "the optional $bFlush is specified and a true value"? I know what a true value is, but I can't figure out what this Flush subroutine is expecting.
Is this the extent of what it means by specifying $bFlush:
$Registry->Flush( $bFlush );
Does it want this exact variable $bFlush to be passed to the Flush subroutine? Does $bFlush already have a value, or do I have to set it equal to something? The "true value"?

Thanks for your help. Maybe I'm closer than I think, or maybe I need to try a different approach.

In reply to Re: Re: TieRegistry - How does Flush( $bFlush ) work? by trout16
in thread TieRegistry - How does Flush( $bFlush ) work? by trout16

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