Re: My application shows up as "TODO: <File Description>" in Windows Firewall

From:

"David Ching" <dc@remove-this.dcsoft.com>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:00:54 -0800

Message-ID:

<WIWwj.7051$Mw.4057@nlpi068.nbdc.sbc.com>

"Timur Aydin" <tayd@ekom.com.tr> wrote in message
news:e08V85IeIHA.4120@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

OK, I found the problem.

The name of the application is cached in the registry !!!

When I first used the problem, the version resource was apparently not
updated. When I saw the incorrect name in Windows Firewall, I corrected
the version resource, but windows keeps using the cached value :(

The problem only happened with the release build, because when I ran the
debug build, I had already corrected the version resource, so the correct
name was cached by windows.

This is really very strange. Why are the names cached for such a simple
operation as reading the version resource out of the executable?

To resolve the issues, I searched for TODO: <file description> in the
registry and deleted all entries that I found. After this, the correct
names started to show up in Windows Firewall.

What registry key contained this TODO string? It sounds like Windows
Firewall data. I don't think core Windows caches version info like this.
If Windows Explorer properties shows your version info correctly, it
definitely is a Windows Firewall thing.

-- David