#2489: Registry keys are created in per-user HKCU instead of system-wide HKLM
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Reporter: nimnul | Owner:
Type: feature request | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 6.10.1
Component: None | Version: 6.8.3
Severity: normal | Resolution:
Keywords: | Difficulty: Unknown
Testcase: | Architecture: Unknown
Os: Windows |
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Changes (by NeilMitchell):
* os: Unknown => Windows
* type: bug => feature request
Comment:
You can put keys in either HKLM (local to the machine) or HKCU (local to
the current user). I think for some purposes they get unioned together.
Often Windows app's offer to install either globally or locally, so this
is something we could provide. However, in some cases, we need admin
access to do HKLM which is why we picked HKCU - partly this is because me
and Duncan don't have admin access on our work machines.
As for Claus's comment that you should be able to stop it, this doesn't
seem to offer many benefits, and isn't something that is done by any other
installers. What would be the use case?
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