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| Newer page: | version 9 | Last edited on Saturday, May 29, 2004 1:55:38 pm | by GaryNiger | Revert |
| Older page: | version 8 | Last edited on Wednesday, February 25, 2004 1:10:41 pm | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
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Update - (early 2004). They seemed to have changed their mind about this... the microsoft websites now seem to work with non-Microsoft browsers (other than windowsupdate.microsoft.com, of course).
!!Read-only Changes to Windows Registry
-The HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE part of the registry is not writable by users without "admin" rights on Windows 2000 (and presumably XP). This breaks lots of software that stored program settings in here, meaning they either won't install, or won't run. Netscape 4.7 has (had?) this problem. To be fair, this might not have been done for the purpose of breaking software, but as a security measure. In Windows NT based OS's, this registry key is for machine configuration settings, the browser customizations are user specific and should be saved in HKEY_CURRENT_USER. In fact, all user configuration should be placed in user registry hives. In retrospect it looks like sloppy programming by the software manufacturer; if you come across this problem, you should let the manufacturer know.
+The HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE part of the registry is not writable by users without "admin" rights on Windows 2000 (and presumably XP). This breaks lots of software that stored program settings in here, meaning they either won't install, or won't run. Netscape 4.7 has (had?) this problem. To be fair, linux is free if your time is worthless
this might not have been done for the purpose of breaking software, but as a security measure. In Windows NT based OS's, this registry key is for machine configuration settings, the browser customizations are user specific and should be saved in HKEY_CURRENT_USER. In fact, all user configuration should be placed in user registry hives. In retrospect it looks like sloppy programming by the software manufacturer; if you come across this problem, you should let the manufacturer know.
!!Email Formatting
Outlook and Outlook Express do lots of little things that make messages look funny on non-Outlook email clients.
