"Yannick Duch�ne (Hibou57)" wrote in message news:op.vqkj61qcule2fv@garhos... Le Mon, 07 Feb 2011 23:28:17 +0100, Randy Brukardt a �crit: >> Windows tries hard to discourage installation of any program without >> administrator permissions, especially on Windows XP and more recent. Any >> program that needs to modify the registry is going to have problems - >There are plenty of useful things which can already be done with >HKEY_CURRENT_USER. Writing to this one, does not requires administrative >rights. Right, but that doesn't include registering programs, help files, and extensions. It's pretty hard to write a good Windows program without doing those things. >> and >> "good" Windows programs will write various things into the registry. >The quotes was welcome, as as-the time goes, more people enjoy >configuration in files instead of the registry: drop-and-run, the same it >is possible with MacOS. The application reside in its own directory, and >mostly write only there, optionally in Application Data, except the >documents it generates. Janus/Ada used to be that way, but people can't figure it out. These days, they expect do-everything installers. I'd surely prefer to spend my time on other things, but you can't claim customers are always wrong and expect to have any customers... >May be this would be better to at least display a message to tell the user >why this need admin account when there is really no other way. This is detailed in the installation documentation. I doubt anyone ever reads that (you could be the first :-), but we still send it... Randy.