Re: Application-installation registry nightmares

From: Erwin Richard (erwin@richard.net)
Date: 04/12/02 

From: "Erwin Richard" <erwin@richard.net>
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 16:09:26 +0200

"David White" <will@not.give.email> wrote in message
news:YGst8.1162$56.124271@nasal.pacific.net.au...
>
> 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
>

I don't know of a simple way to uninstall per user settings of an
application,
thinking of roaming profiles etc.

Erwin