Re: Application-installation registry nightmares

From: David White (will@not.give.email)
Date: 04/12/02

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    From: "David White" <will@not.give.email>
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 09:45:48 +1000

    Erwin Richard <erwin@richard.net> wrote in message
    news:a949ei$67oj$1@ID-88072.news.dfncis.de...
    > - Use the Microsoft Installer Service to install the application

    Quite a bit of work here, since it's complex, has many components, and an
    InstallShield installation has already been done.

    > - During Installation you can only write to LOCAL_MACHINE (in the context
    > of Installer Service)
    > - Rewrite the Application to store user specific settings under
    CURRENT_USER
    > provide defaults for these values either hardcoded or in LOCAL_MACHINE
    > but
    > let CURRENT_USER settings override.

    Okay, though I think I might as well have hard coded defaults for
    CURRENT_USER in the app and forget about LOCAL_MACHINE altogether.

    > Changing the permissions in LOCAL_MACHINE is a bad idea because:
    >
    > - It does not conform to standard expected behaviour
    > - If several users work on the same machine, they probably want different
    > user settings for each user.
    > - network administrators will not like your application

    lol

    > - security risk - depending on the information you want to store

    Thanks for your suggestion.

    David

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