How to make a cab file with registry entries?

[Guest dwallersv]

Gang, I'm new to making cab files. Took a look at the tool, Cab File Maker 2.0, which seems very straightforward in terms of packaging up files for install, with one exception -- I have no idea how to specify install locations. Also, I don't know how to take a set of registry entries and add them to the cab file to be installed.

I've picked apart the _setup.xml file from existing cab files, and pretty much understand it. Some things, like the "CE#" spcifications for target directories is abstract, and not fully clear.

So... is there some other tool that makes it easy to generate the _setup.xml file, or do I just have to create that by hand myself? I'd love to be able to feed a file in the .reg format into some tool, a long with simply the files and their paths from their intended locations, and have the tool create a final cab file, or at least the _setup.xml file.

Some guidance from the experts would be great... thanks!

[Guest Adrynalyne]

Its so much easiser to export the registry value with CERegEditor, then use the reg to cab function within the program to make a cab for it.