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

[Tom F. <to...@mu...>]

>      "Do you want this software to be available to all users(requires
>      admin rights) or only to the current user?(Yes/No)"

Nooooooo. What does the answer "no" mean? :-)

Even the klunky old Atari ST had a function to easily customise the words
printed on the buttons. Windows... <shakes head in despair>


Tom Forsyth - Muckyfoot bloke and Microsoft MVP.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kerim Borchaev [mailto:wa...@ho...]
> Sent: 22 January 2003 09:06
> To: Brian Hook
> Subject: Re[2]: [GD-Windows] Security/access when writing to registry
> 
> 
> 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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