XYplorer messing with registry?

[stevefrye]

I just received a notice from Acronis TrueImage active protection saying that XYplorer tried to modify an Acronis registry entry.

Why would XYplorer try to do that? I'm using XYplorer 17.00.0200 on a Win8.1 system.

Steve

[highend]

And which registry entry was that?

[JLoftus]

Use SysInternals "ProcMon", filter to xyplorer.exe and registry changes only, and see what shows up.

[admin]

XYplorer only changes the registry when you actively change any settings in this section (and it's clearly stated there):
Configuration | Shell Integration | Default File Manager

After all it's one of XYplorer's top claims that it's 100% stealth and does not change the registry or the system. So you can really relax about that.

[JLoftus]

Don, I 'm afraid this is not accurate. I too ran ProcMon and began watching XYplorer.exe. I've been chasing random hourglass things for a long time, and have never solved these hang problems. I'm sure my issues are not registry related, more likely network related, as I do a *LOT* of LAN based file management.

However, my observation seems to suggest XY is doing more with the registry than your comment indicates, as I do NOT have any settings selected under the "Default File Manager" section as you mentioned, yet, I am getting a lot of registry activity with XY, see the screenshot attached.

[admin]

What are you doing when this happens?

[JLoftus]

More on this.... It seems every time I switch panes or select a different file type, I'm getting more reg queries. See new screen capture below.

My left pane in this example is a folder on local hard drive with some audio files and a text file. The right pane is a network mapped drive letter, with folders of audio files. The screenshot here shows not only a reference to the mapped folder location in the right pane, but ALSO to a different mapped drive letter in another tab, which is not foreground focused, it's a tab in the right pane that is background. The right pane foreground is my S drive (share name Drobo_S) and there's registry activity here for the MP3 share that's in another tab.

Seems there's a good bit of registry activity associated with file extensions, timezones (file handling?) and some DWM things too. For reference, I am running Windows 10 64-bit.

[admin]

OK, I'm seeing this as well here with Process Monitor. I think it's neglectable. It's some implicit activity, no idea what it is, certainly nothing XYplorer does actively as I already said before.

[highend]

What has this querying registry noise to do with actively changing / creating specific key/value pairs (what the OP was talking about)?

[JLoftus]

Agreed (re: neglectable), I've been using XY for years and haven't experienced anything untoward. However, it certainly is a lot of activity within a short duration, and ideally, eliminating or even reducing this activity certainly would be a good thing. Seems the vast majority are queries or enums, not writes (that's good). Maybe there are some optimizations yet undiscovered which would lead to fewer registry queries. maybe with file type associations or network share references or rainbow-pooping unicorns

[JLoftus]

What has this querying registry noise to do with actively changing / creating specific key/value pairs (what the OP was talking about)?

Indeed, it's largely queries/enums... but still chaff nonetheless. seems an awful lot of redundant queries which may potentially be optimised?

[admin]

It's background noise. The sound of Windows. I have no access to these vibes. It's OS weather. Bit radiation. Byte rays.