More on the XP Embedded hives

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As mentioned in one of the MEDC sessions (on the subject of FBA I think), when TD is building the runtime it creates hives on the development machine and populates all your component registry resources to these temporary hives.

When the build process is complete, TD unloads those hives as the DEFAULT, SAM, SECURITY, SOFTWARE & SYSTEM hives to your 'Windows Embedded Images' folder.

Below is a screenshot of my dev machine’s local hives during the TD build process, you can see these temporary hives with the prefix "CMILoadedHives-" name. Don’t monkey with these hives during the build process or else TD may error when trying to unload them. This could leave you with some weird looking branches in the dev machine’s hives that may require you to reset the ACLs for the branches and try to whack them.

- Andy