Windows registry and the progress.ini file

Applications running in Windows rely on the registry for startup information, such as color, font, and key bindings. Variables described in this section are reserved for use by the OpenEdge installation. The installation variables have already been defined.

Caution: You should proceed with extreme caution if you are considering a change to any of the variables listed in the following sections.

Information from the progress.ini for 32-bit OpenEdge installation resides under the following registry keys:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\PSC\PROGRESS\<version>
HEKY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PSC\PROGRESS\<version>

Note: Due to registry redirection on 64-bit Windows machine, the 32-bit OpenEdge keys appear as follows when you view in 64-bit regedit:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\PSC\PROGRESS\<version>
HEKY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\PSC\PROGRESS\<version>

Information from the progress.ini for 64-bit OpenEdge installation resides under the following registry keys:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\PSC\PROGRESS\x64\<version>
HEKY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PSC\PROGRESS\<version>

Note: If you modify the progress.ini information, you must run the ini2reg utility. This utility updates the information in the registry.

See OpenEdge Deployment: Managing ABL Applications for more information on the progress.ini file and the ini2reg utility.

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Environment variables

Additional details for Java-related environment variables