Re: database install

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"Cy Welch" <cywelch@xxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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Stefan Wuebbe wrote:

"Cy Welch" <cywelch@xxxxxxxxx> schrieb

Unfortunately, HKLM is verboten in Vista, while HKCU is ok. All the
rules allowed before are now out the window, and code that worked from
Windows 3.1 on no longer works. Oh what fun.

Hi Cy - On the other hand, HKLM was verboten in Windows2000 and WinXP
too, at least for the standard "Limited" and "Power" users.

While this is indeed true, in Vista even Administrative users can only get
there by either running the program as Admin (using the property in the
shortcut) or by answering a prompt each time you escalate security rights
to write to the registry. While it's rather a bit of a pain, it in large
part is just MS forcing us to do things by the rules they have tried to
get us to do all along.

Yes, I do not really like Vista's UAC implementation either.
But personally I do appreciate the particular idea not to use an Admin
account for daily work. MS is just a little late enforcing it, Unix/Linux
people always did so.


-Stefan



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