{"id":7943,"date":"2022-01-23T00:03:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T00:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/?p=7943"},"modified":"2022-01-23T00:30:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T00:30:20","slug":"beyond-good-ol-run-key-part-138","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/23\/beyond-good-ol-run-key-part-138\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond good ol\u2019 Run key, Part 138"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is a post that should have appeared here at least 10 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is an enigmatic Registry entry:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\<br>CurrentVersion\\PeerDist\\Extension\\PeerdistDllName=peerdist.dll<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>that I came across many times before. The problem is that I, frankly, don&#8217;t know when it is being used, but it&#8217;s yet another location to keep an eye on, in case the default DLL file name has been replaced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The wininet.dll library is using this location internally in its P2P_PEER_DIST_API::LoadPeerDist function.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, I am not making it any clearer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a post that should have appeared here at least 10 years ago. There is an enigmatic Registry entry: HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\PeerDist\\Extension\\PeerdistDllName=peerdist.dll that I came across many times before. The problem is that I, frankly, don&#8217;t know when it is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/23\/beyond-good-ol-run-key-part-138\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7943"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7951,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7943\/revisions\/7951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}