COM Wiz 1.8

1. GeneralSmart system analysis and repair utility with COM Component wizardWith COM Wiz for Windows, developers, system administrators and professional Windows users may maintain and control any COM Component, installed service or device on their system.In general, COM Wiz provides a graphical user interface to the Microsoft?Windows Registry- and system settings through a familiar, context-oriented dialog. Providing a detailed tree-view of all registered DLL-, OCX- and ActiveX -Components it is an ease to trace down and repair application errors to mis-configured Registry settings extremely fast. With COM Wiz it is possible to control and edit the system services and devices entries in the Windows Registry. The dependencies of each entry are displayed in the built-in COMWDepends viewer.As additional feature, COM Wiz enables you to quick-browse the program path of your installed software applications and to edit special registered file type entries.For your convenience, updates for this application can be checked and downloaded by means of the check for updates feature. 2. COM Wiz categoriesWith COM Wiz, several important system categories in the Windows Registry are displayed in a tree-view-like manner for maintenance, testing and development purpose. Divided in four categories the following tabs are provided:2.1 COM Components COM Components are DLL Server (Dynamic Link Libraries), OCX Controls and out-of process ActiveX EXE Servers listed in the Windows Registry. COM (Component Object Model) is the technology provided by Microsoft?for building blocks for Windows applications. Reusable code is wrapped in small Components and ready to be accessed by any other COM-enabled applications. Since the COM registration information is distributed to several areas in the Windows Registry and only some poor COM management tools are available, their maintenance is hard and very time-consuming.COM Wiz provides a complete set of features to control and maintain COM Components through an easy to use interface. Developers and system administrators have special interest in this tab that allows to view and edit the information of each registered COM Component.Some programs leave the system full of such components after normal de-installation. Mis-configured Components, such as with missing files, are marked and can be fixed/removed with a single mouse-click. A Registry editor is integrated in the Registered Components tab to allow direct modification of any component entries. With the Regedit auto-jump the Windows Registry editor can be called to open with the currently selected location within COM Wiz.With the COMWRegSvr shell extension COM Components can be registered, unregistered and viewed in COM Wiz. The shell extension is provided with the right-mouse context menu, integrated in the Windows Explorer. When a Component is being registered, the result can be instantly displayed with COM Wiz automatically.Special features included in the COM Components tab: - Direct Registry access with the built-in Registry editor and ability to open regedit.exe with the current position (auto-jump available in Windows 2000/XP only). - Automatic deregistration/registration of components and deletion of corrupt entries - Components ordered by several categories: ProgID, CLSID, File name, File location - Advanced Registry search methods, applied on Components - Build-in Dependency walker- Register/Unregister shortcut in Explorer context menu - File path view in Explorer of each component2.2 UninstCleanShows the list of all installed software applications. Explore any install path and check installation entries.Users who need often to install/reinstall applications can maintain the installed software list and check their Registry entries on this tab.Hidden autostart entries, found in the Windows Registry are also accessible in a familiar manner from this tab. Delete mis-configured Keys, go directly to the installed application path before- and just after uninstalling process etc. No other uninstaller calculates and displays ANY installation path fo