On Aug 10, 5:05 am, vasudevram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 23, 6:07 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Well, I ran Process Monitor with some filters enabled to only watch > > Thunderbird and MS Word. Unfortunately, that didn't give me any of the > registry edits, so I disabled my filters and ran it without. Now I > have a log file with 28,000 entries. It's amazing to see all the stuff > that happens in just a few moments, but how am I supposed to parse > this mess? > > Explorer.exe and outlook express do thousands of the registry calls > and the paths they manipulate vary wildly. Oh well, I'll be off the > clock in about 15 minutes so it can wait until Monday. > > Thanks for your help. I'll post if I figure out anything...hopefully > you'll do the same. > > --- > > Sorry for not replying earlier ... I searched this list for the topic > (Python MAPI) a few times but couldn't find it - not sure why - maybe > Google Groups's indexing gets messed up sometimes ... > > Yes, so many entries would be a problem to parse manually ... > > That's why I suggested using a grep for Windows - or, preferably, an > egrep - which is a more powerful version of grep; e.g. basic grep only > allows you to use one regexp at a time - while egrep allows you to use > extended regular expressions, such as "pattern1|pattern2", also > "patt(e|u)rn(1|2)" which looks in parallel for pattern1, patturn1, > pattern2 and patturn2 - I used a made-up example where the spelling of > pattern could be wrong, but it works for any other cases of > alternative patterns and subpatterns as well. Not sure if there is any > egrep for Windows - try Googling. If not, and the problem is important > enough, you might want to install Cygwin (its a big download, so first > check if it _does_ have egrep in it). > > Vasudev
There are some programs that do grep for Windows. I'll mess with them. Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list