I know this is a rather esoteric question, but...

I noticed that some features of REG.EXE that exist on 2003 do not work
on XP.

I tracked this down to an older version of ADVAPI32.DLL and REG.EXE
(08.04.2004) on XP than the newer ones on 2003 (02.17.2007).
Unfortunately, copying the two files and trying to re-register the
newer ADVAPI32.DLL on XP does not work.

Is there any other way to get the new version of these two files
working properly on an XP Professional SP2 machine?

Thanks!

- JayDee

Have you tried to delete the dllcache version so that it does not get
replaced as soon as the XP OS realizes it is not the authentic XP version?
Other than that, me being a coder I would use something like "Depends"
(Dependency Walker) from Visual Studio to compare the calls and the
dependencies to figure out what the differences are.

"JayDee" <dopamine@mail.com> wrote in message
news:25b2858b-6a32-4124-8bce-aaca1b27ac36@n22g2000prh.googlegroups.com...
>I know this is a rather esoteric question, but...
>
> I noticed that some features of REG.EXE that exist on 2003 do not work
> on XP.
>
> I tracked this down to an older version of ADVAPI32.DLL and REG.EXE
> (08.04.2004) on XP than the newer ones on 2003 (02.17.2007).
> Unfortunately, copying the two files and trying to re-register the
> newer ADVAPI32.DLL on XP does not work.
>
> Is there any other way to get the new version of these two files
> working properly on an XP Professional SP2 machine?
>
> Thanks!
>
> - JayDee
>

Have you tried to delete the dllcache version so that it does not get
replaced as soon as the XP OS realizes it is not the authentic XP version?
Other than that, me being a coder I would use something like "Depends"
(Dependency Walker) from Visual Studio to compare the calls and the
dependencies to figure out what the differences are.

"JayDee" <dopamine@mail.com> wrote in message
news:25b2858b-6a32-4124-8bce-aaca1b27ac36@n22g2000prh.googlegroups.com...
>I know this is a rather esoteric question, but...
>
> I noticed that some features of REG.EXE that exist on 2003 do not work
> on XP.
>
> I tracked this down to an older version of ADVAPI32.DLL and REG.EXE
> (08.04.2004) on XP than the newer ones on 2003 (02.17.2007).
> Unfortunately, copying the two files and trying to re-register the
> newer ADVAPI32.DLL on XP does not work.
>
> Is there any other way to get the new version of these two files
> working properly on an XP Professional SP2 machine?
>
> Thanks!
>
> - JayDee
>