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| From: | "Andrew Patrzalek" <apatrza1 AT rochester DOT rr DOT com> |
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| Subject: | scenario: no registry access, C:\ locked out |
| Date: | Tue, 20 Jun 2000 20:09:34 -0400 |
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_002D_01BFDAF3.73A89780 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable As I have been somewhat of a spurious lurker, I wonder if the scenario = where the end user does not have write access to c:\ and the registry is = Adm. edit access only has been considered. The end user can still = change the user environment but cannot use regedit for instance. B19*, = B20* and v1.1.1 appear not to care. This is somewhat of a philosophical = question that may have impact on portability issues down the road. Is = there a movement toward having more involvement in things that lead to = an end user editing the registry to make things work? ------=_NextPart_000_002D_01BFDAF3.73A89780 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-1" = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META content=3D"MSHTML 5.00.2919.6307" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>As I have been somewhat of a spurious = lurker, I=20 wonder if the scenario where the end user does not have write access to = c:\ and=20 the registry is Adm. edit access only has been considered. The end = user=20 can still change the user environment but cannot use regedit for = instance. B19*,=20 B20* and v1.1.1 appear not to care. This is somewhat of a = philosophical=20 question that may have impact on portability issues down the road. = Is=20 there a movement toward having more involvement in things that lead to = an end=20 user editing the registry to make things = work?</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_002D_01BFDAF3.73A89780--
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