Re: Application-installation registry nightmares

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

From: "David White" <will@not.give.email>
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 13:42:27 +1000

David White <will@not.give.email> wrote in message
news:4dpt8.1156$56.123400@nasal.pacific.net.au...

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

On second thought, that's not a good idea. The uninstaller should remove the
app's reg keys, but won't know to do so if the installer doesn't create them
in the first place. By copying from LOCAL_MACHINE to CURRENT_USER, my app
doesn't have to know what all the defaults are, which avoids setting up the
same defaults in two places, the installer and the app, and in two different
languages.

David

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