[F4RegPath] A tool to edit/delete Falcon BMS registry entries
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This is a Python script with a GUI that allows users to edit the Falcon BMS registry paths or delete the registry entries entirely. This is not necessary for most users to do. Where it may come in handy is when someone installs Falcon BMS, deletes it improperly, and then wants to reinstall it. At this point, the phantom registry entries will prevent the reinstall. Obviously, the user could then edit the registry himself – and if he knows how to do this, he doesn’t need this tool.
Another use case is if you want to move your copy of Falcon BMS from one directory to another without reinstalling. Again, if you know how to edit the registry, this isn’t necessary.
If you have a friend who is terrified of editing the registry, and needs this kind of help, there you have it. Please see the readme.
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@BibleClinger will this remove theaters as well? That’s one of my common mistakes uninstalling, missing a theater and not being able to use their uninstallers then.
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@Snake122 said in [F4RegPath] A tool to edit/delete Falcon BMS registry entries:
@BibleClinger will this remove theaters as well? That’s one of my common mistakes uninstalling, missing a theater and not being able to use their uninstallers then.
No. This will also not even delete any Falcon BMS installation. It only deals with the registry for now.
I could, in theory, update this to do a bit more, but theaters are a bit tricky. Some have uninstallers registered with Windows. Others have a script that removes files.
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@BibleClinger Nice… if you want to expand on this… one weird trick that has become common lately, is the need for folks to “redirect” old BMS registry entries to point to their latest install location.
Semi-abandoned tools like MFDE and BMS-Burner… are hardcoded to look for eg. [Wow6432Node\Benchmark Sims\Falcon BMS 4.35] but crash or fail at startup when they can’t find that key, or can’t find the baseDir referenced there.
But modifying the ‘baseDir’ to point to eg. “C:\Falcon BMS 4.37” allows those older tools to continue to work, unmodified.
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@airtex2019 Interesting. If I understand you correctly, then you can currently use this program to make these other old tools continue to work. It sounds a bit questionable, at least in the long run, however, since eventually these old tools will probably stop working.
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@BibleClinger yes no doubt it is a terrible hack … my mind is not
derangedclever enough to even think of it. just a short-term life-support fix -
With the new installer, that shouldn’t be needed…
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Unfortunately the program crashes after launch:
Falcon BMS was previously installed and removed with BMS uninstaller.
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@dolphin said
Unfortunately the program crashes after launch:
Falcon BMS was previously installed and removed with BMS uninstaller.
““This is not necessary for most users to do. Where it may come in handy is when someone installs Falcon BMS, deletes it improperly…””
Perhaps you uninstalled correctly, and - thus - there is nothing for the tool to find.
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@Aragorn This is correct, although I had mistakenly thought I had this situation handled already. This one slipped through the cracks.
Edit: It should be fixed in the latest release.