Suppose a user has tried changing various, configurable options, possibly experimenting as a new WE user with the public beta. This has been a learning process, and some settings have been evidently worth changing while others not. The user would like to return to the starting point of the WE installation with all default settings (e.g., of the quick install). Then the user would make selective tweaks after that, using the knowledge gained through experimentation over a period of time (but not remembering each change from the default that was made along the way).
Jamal On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Ron Parker wrote: > Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:53:05 -0400 > From: Ron Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Restoring factory settings > > > Well, there's no guarantee that what's in the All Users folder is the > factory settings, either, of course. It's whatever your admin has set > it up to be. > > To answer your question, though, I don't think that's enough. There are > things in some INI files that you want to keep, but there are also > things in the same INI files that you want to change. So just making > the decision at the file level won't be good enough no matter what. And > which things those are is implementation dependent, so it's likely to > change frequently and without notice. > > What is your goal here? Wiping out the entirety of a user's > customizations doesn't seem like a very useful thing. If they wanted to > do that, it seems they'd just delete the profile or create a new one. > > > Jamal Mazrui wrote: > > What if only set files are copied from the All Users folder? > > > > Jamal > > > > On Mon, 4 Aug > > 2008, Ron Parker wrote: > > > > > >> Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:27:13 -0400 > >> From: Ron Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Reply-To: [email protected] > >> To: [email protected] > >> Subject: Re: Restoring factory settings > >> > >> > >> People more knowledgeable than I will probably address the rest of your > >> question, but I wanted to jump in to point out that if you copy all > >> files from All Users to the user profile folder, you will break the > >> trust mechanism, and you will revert the trust level to "only trusted > >> scripts" with no scripts or publishers trusted by default, regardless of > >> what the settings are in the All Users profile. > >> > >> That's by design, to mitigate certain potential attack vectors, so it's > >> not a bug and it's not going to change. > >> > >> Jamal Mazrui wrote: > >> > >>> Should a script copy all files from the All Users folder to the user > >>> profile folder? Should the file mask be more selective than *.* such as > >>> *.0* instead? > >>> > >>> > >> > > > > >
