Re: Missing copy of HKEY_USERS\.Default -> HKEY_CURRENT_USER

[Ove Kaaven]

On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, David Elliott wrote:

> As I understand it, Wine currently has a global registry and a user registry.  The
> global registry gets loaded first, then user settings are loaded on top of that.
> Any modifications will be written to the user registry and if possible the global
> registry (which will probably only be possible if you have write access to it, for
> instance a "wine" account or something like that maybe).

Well, Wine doesn't try to save to the global registry, which is why we
recommend system administrators to symlink root's user registry to the
global registry, so it goes there anyway...

> I would suggest maybe having an HKEY_USERS\.Wine which will load into
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER first, and then the users settings will be loaded on top of that.

Well, that's probably an option. But I remember that in Win95/98, there
used to be a setting somewhere in control panel about "share user settings
by all users" or something like that. What did that setting change? We
could perhaps borrow from the way that worked...