Registry Capture Utility

I recently moved to Windows  7, but I still use Visual Studio 2005 Professional for my work. I have a rather complicated setup project, and when I built it the environment threw and error saying Microsoft Vsual Studio Registry Capture utility has stopped working.

After a little research on the web I have found it was a compatibility issue of regcap.exe. To fix the issue, the workaround is to browse to the regcap.exe location, which typically is under C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\Tools\Deployment, right click it and under the Compatibility tab select Windows Vista(Service Pack2) mode.

I have re-run my setup project and I don’t get a crash anymore.

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