Re: minesweeper



"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:


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"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:


"Ebpv Yeuj" <EbpvYeuj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm having problems with minesweeper:

For some reason, it won't save my best times anymore.

I've beat my record many times in the last month, but it still won't
update
it.
(the most recent score on the best times list was 178 at 3/29/07 for
the
expert level, I just got 164 today (10/22/07))


I have windows XP professional and I have not modified minesweeper in
any
way (at least to my knowledge)
Don't really know what other information I should supply for a problem
like
this....

You are obviously an expert if you can achieve 164 seconds at
the expert level! You now need a different type of expertise to
fix your problem. For some reason the registry key used to store
your Minesweeper score won't accept your updates. Its permissions
are probably wrong. It is here:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\winmine
Check the permissions, then set them to "Full Conrol" for
yourself. When finished, manually set the result for "Time3"
to 164.

Post again if this makes no sense to you.




unfortunately it does not make sense.

all I know about registry keys is that they exist and are important....

Fine. Do this:
- Click Start / Run / regedit {OK}
- Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\winmine
- Right-click winmine
- Click your logon name
- Report the permissions you see



ok so there are 4 group/user names in the permissions window:
Administrators .... has Allow checked for Full Control and Read.
me ........................ same as Administrators.
RESTRICTED ...... has Allow checked for Read but Full Control has no checks
SYSTEM ............... same as Administrators.

Admin, me, and SYSTEM have the Allow faded out even though they are checked,
the Deny are unchecked and normal colors.
none of them have Special Permissions checked (and the boxes are faded out
so I can't check them)
.

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