On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, David Elliott wrote:
> Patrick Spinler wrote:
>
> > > Martin Pilka wrote:
[...]
> > How would a system administrator make global updates to all user's
> > configurations _after_ they have instanciated a user specific HKEY_USER
> > hive ? E.g, I've installed a new application or upgraded an existing one
> > ...
> >
>
> And you just hit on one of the major issues with Windows NT.
> Congratulations. On NT it is up to the application to have some sort of
> configuration hook at startup so that when a user logs on after the
> application having been installed, it configures it for the user.
What's even more fun is:
How do you cleanly uninstall an application with per user data in the
registry?
What some of MS's applications do (Outlook Express?) is leave an
uninstaller behind which uses the same sort of hook you mentionned. So
weeks after you uninstalled the application you log in as some rarely
used user and you see messages about 'XXX updating your Windows
configuration'.
So in fact the answer is: you cannot, you will always have to leave
something behind, either data or software!
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