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Tympanix edited this page Jan 22, 2017 · 2 revisions

If something isn't right you can turn on debugging to print out errors and other messages into stderr and stdout. The module uses the debug package from npm to achieve this.

To turn on debugging set the following variable in you environment before executing the application DEBUG=electron-regedit. Then execute you application in cmd and watch the output.

Debugging Squirrel

For squirrel applications turn on debugging as described above and execute you application with the following arguments

  • --squirrel-install to test installation
  • --squirrel-update to test updating
  • --squirrel-uninstall to test uninstallation
  • --squirrel-obsolete to test out phasing (opposite of updating)

Windows Registry

If you manually want to find the installed keys in the registry you can do so by inspecting the following keys:

  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\MyApplication
  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.ext

In the above MyApplication is the name of your ProgId and ext is your associated file extension

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