Cruft left behind by tests

Greg Geldorp ggeldorp at vmware.com
Wed Dec 9 08:13:55 CST 2009


> From: Maarten LankhorstSent: woensdag 9 december 2009 13:03
>
> 2009/12/9 Greg Geldorp <ggeldorp at vmware.com>:
> > During WineConf we briefly discussed files/registry keys left behind by
running winetest.exe on Windows machines. I promised to look at that and
then promptly forgot about it. Anyway, this is the list of files that get
left behind when running the tests on a WinXP machine:
> > ...
> >
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\ActiveMovie\devenum\{083863F1-70DE-11D0-BD40-00A0C91
1CE86}\{8DE0E022-0111-43BA-9227-175BA62326EC}
> >
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\ActiveMovie\devenum\{4EFE2452-168A-11D1-BC76-00C04FB
9453B}\Default MidiOut Device
> >
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\ActiveMovie\devenum\{E0F158E1-CB04-11D0-BD4E-00A0C91
1CE86}\Default DirectSound Device
> >...
> > HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Multimedia\msacm.msgsm610
> > HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Multimedia\ActiveMovie
>
> Running the devenum tests leaves some cached info there, not much we
> can do about it..

Yeah, I didn't want to imply that all of these should be "fixed", some of
them look pretty benign and others might be unavoidable.

> One thing I wonder about though, are the keys I mentioned persistent?
> Or are they gone after a reboot?

Just checked, they remain even after reboot.

Ge.
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