Re[2]: [GD-Windows] Security/access when writing to registry

[Kerim B. <wa...@ho...>]

Hello Brian,

     Support both HKCU and HKLM. If your software is being installed
     by an advanced user let her choose what to use. Like this:
     
     "Do you want this software to be available to all users(requires
     admin rights) or only to the current user?(Yes/No)"

     And on start of your app first, say, look into CU(if the user
     installed this soft for her personally ) and if nothing
     found loook into LM.

Best regards,
 Kerim                            mailto:wa...@ho...

Wednesday, January 22, 2003, 11:01:55 AM, you wrote:

BH> Yes, I'm revisiting a thread that's over a year old =)

BH> I've been using HKCU instead of HKLM like a good Windows app, but it
BH> seems like you can't win 'em all.

BH> The problem with HKCU is that, well, it's per user.  I've gotten very
BH> sporadic complaints about having to install our games multiple times
BH> (including unlock codes), which isn't that big a deal.  But what IS a
BH> big deal is when you have multiple users on the same machine trying
BH> to compete against each other, but now their high scores aren't
BH> shared.  This is a pretty galling thing, since a lot of our games are
BH> competitive that way and we do find that more than a few of our
BH> players are on multi-user systems.

BH> Ideas on a clean solution to this problem?

BH> Brian




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