make windows read registry settings

[mcnamara]

Hello,
As you know if you make changes in windows registry then the changes will take affect only after you restart windows. It means that windows reads settings at startup. Is there any way to make windows reread these settings so that they take affect without restarting? Thanks

[Marc G]

It depends on which settings you are changing.
What are you trying to do?

[mcnamara]

I'm changing path of desktop folder

[Marc G]

Did you try to use SHSetFolderPath (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/shell/reference/functions/shgetspecialfolderlocation.asp).

[mcnamara]

No, I didn't know this function I'll try it. Thanks

[mcnamara]

Thanks the function works well

[Marc G]

You're welcome :wave:

[mcnamara]

In fact after using shsetfolderpath I used shchangenotify to refresh dektop window. I think that if I just change registry key without using shsetfolderpath and then call shchangenotify I should get the same result

[Marc G]

It's better to you use the SHSetFolderPath so you are sure the correct key in the registry will get updated.

[mcnamara]

Yes I agree with you. After calling these functions the memory used by explorer.exe is very high ad CPU load gets about 50%. Is there anything that can be done to solve these issues?

[Marc G]

That's strange ... i don't see a reason why explorer would starting eating CPU cycles.
Did you try it on another test machine?

[mcnamara]

Yes I tried. It's the same