Hallo Thomas, On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 10:02:43 +0700GMT (5-2-2006, 4:02 +0100, where I live), you wrote:
TF>>> True, but are you saying that if you use Add/Remove programs TB will TF>>> not uninstall everything? PVN>> Yes. TF> That's a bad behaviour. It's a Windows restriction. 1)When both you and your wife are using the same system and you want to run a(ll) program(s) with user dependent settings than that stuff should be kept in the user part of the registry. Users can't access each others registry settings as they're always using the 'current user' part of the registry. Of course it is possible to access the settings for other users as admin (and you need to be logged on as admin to undelete TB), but Windows kind of frowns on that behaviour. 2)Apart from the above it has always been a discussion point whether an uninstall procedure should remove data that were not created during the installation. And though the first run on the installing account could be considered part of the install procedure, the running of TB in a different Windows account would definitely be no part of that. 3)Also there's the point that uninstall procedures only delete the items that the install log says that have been installed. The access to that log is usually read only for users with restricted rights. So their first run can't add those data to the install log. As an additional bonus you'd get confusion in your install log, because every account would claim to add keys to the 'current user' part of the registry. ;-) 4)Let's suppose you're running TB v3 from H:\Program Files\The Bat! and your wife runs v2 from W:\Program Files\The Bat! (H: for husband and W: for wife), because she doesn't like the new filtering system. And now we've got this really smart uninstall procedure that searches all user parts of the registry for pieces of TB's settings. Do you really expect that it would be so smart that it could take something like this in account? -- Groetjes, Roelof I'm going to get drunk for a week, sober up and then get drunk for a month again - Hawkeye Pierce The Bat! 3.70.07 "Qigong" (Beta) Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2 1 pop3 account, server on LAN OTFE enabled P4 3GHz 2 GB RAM
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