For people who do not know Twistpad, it is a simple and easy-to-use software which is mainly used by Microsoft Corporation to distribute applications onto computer. It uses a CD-ROM drive to provide download capabilities so that the files are copied onto your hard drive before you execute the software. All the users of Twistpad have to do is open the program and insert the drive and start the operation. The program runs in a loop, downloading the files from a central server until it reaches the part where the user can download the application.
But the process of downloading is not as simple as it may seem to be. For most of the software Twistpad is based on Windows, but it does not follow the normal rules of the operating system. In order to download the application from Twistpad, the program will be first tried on the current working directory. If the program cannot find the file there, it will then try the Windows registry.
So, what happens here? The information contained in the registry is the complete path of the Windows installation and all its sub-directories. It is highly important to know about the usage of the registry as a tool to prevent any form of hacking attacks. As Twistpad tries to download the application, it will look for the value "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Installer\Products" which stores the files necessary for the installation of the application. If the program fails, it will create another copy of the file and start again. As the Windows registry is very big, all the users of Twistpad have to do is follow these steps: You should run the application, you should use a command prompt to run the registry repair tools, you should use the shortcut manager to delete all the duplicate files, you should run the program again and try to download the application.
