Re: Kerio reinstallation remembers previous configuration

From: Stan Goodman (SPAM_FOILER_at_hashkedim.com)
Date: 02/27/05 

Date: 27 Feb 2005 12:30:46 GMT

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 16:24:21 UTC, "Kerodo" <kerodo@gmail.com> opined:
>
> Stan Goodman wrote:
> >
> > I will be grateful if someone will tell me how I can find the
> previous
> > configuration so I can delete it and install the application from
> scratch,
> > leaving behind any memory of time gone by. This will also help me to
> edit
> > the configuration if I wish to make changes in it.
>
> Could be something left behind in the registry, although I would have
> thought removing the files would be enough. You might try loading
> regedit and looking for Kerio settings in the following registry keys:
>
> Hkey_Current_User/Software
> Hkey_Local_Machine/Software
>
> If there's anything there, just delete it and try reinstalling again.
 
This turns out not to be as simple as I had imagined it would be.

With KPF "removed" (as Windows so quaintly puts it, which really means only
that the files and their directory are gone), neither of the above folder
contains any subfolder with a name containing the string "Kerio", or indeed
anything beginning with K.

With KPF installed (which means it is remembering from somewhere the earlier
configuration, and does not allow me to alter it in any way), there are two
lined in the Kerio subfolder in Hkey_Local_Machine/Software, nothing at all
in the other.
 
So the configuration is not in the Kerio program folder, not in the
registry...... Where is it?
 
And, on the philosophical level: What kind of nutcase designs and releases a
program that, once it is configured, stays that way in perpetuity, whether
you "remove" it or not?
 
Happily, there are other firewall programs, so that I don't feel a need to
spend much more time on this one. I would, however, like to know for future
reference where the honchos at Kerio have seen fit to stow their
configuration. And, since I already have this one, I'll take one more crack
at initializing it and using it. Does someone know where the configuration
might be? 

-- 
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel
 
All those who believe that the best physicians in France, given two weeks, 
can't diagnose what ails a patient - please stand up.

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