Hi Bruce
Another factor to weigh in heavily with all of this is the fact that just
because one Windows OS contains the key at the specified place in the
registry, doesn't mean the next version will have the same info located in
the same place.
For instance I used to read the registry key for Windows to determine the
proxy server settings, I examined NT 4.0, Win98 and Win95 all versions and
came up with what I thought was a foolproof method based checking the
registry. All worked prefectly until Win2K came out, presto no registry
settings for the d@#$ proxyserver except if one checked the realAudio plugin
proxy settings. Well what if someone uninstalled or somehow failed to
install realAudio it would fail as well. So the only surefire way was to
ask the user and give them the option of editing those settings at a later
date. It doesn't necessarily mean that they will enter the right info but I
really don't think there is ever a sure fire method of doing any of this
type of stuff. Hence the reason most install programs for any software that
needs to know the info asks the user for the stuff.
Just my ten cents.
Sincerely
Mark
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