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Tehila1

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Registry Keys to keep data for all users
« on: September 22, 2014, 08:28:13 pm »
Hello,

I installed EA for all users, therefore I have registry entry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE in addition to HKEY_CURRENT_USER.

I would like to set values in EA400\EA\OPTIONS key for all users.
But this key exist only under HKEY_CURRENT_USER. The LOCAL_MACHINE entry is empty.Is it possible to make EA read registry values from HKLM?
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Re: Registry Keys to keep data for all users
« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2014, 11:15:56 pm »
I think they introduced that some versions ago, though I have never used it. Just give it a try and see which supersedes the other.

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Re: Registry Keys to keep data for all users
« Reply #2 on: September 23, 2014, 08:47:08 am »
Not possible to read from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, EA would need to be run as administrator to save any settings.

(I suspect what qwerty is thinking of is reading of add-ins)

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Re: Registry Keys to keep data for all users
« Reply #3 on: September 23, 2014, 05:55:35 pm »
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Not possible to read from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, EA would need to be run as administrator to save any settings.

(I suspect what qwerty is thinking of is reading of add-ins)



Addins indeed can be registered for all users by locating the registry entry under LOCAL_MACHINE. My qustion is about the reg entries that are created by EA itself, such as version control keys.  
  
Did someone encounter or try this issue?
« Last Edit: September 23, 2014, 05:56:22 pm by avoda234 »
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Re: Registry Keys to keep data for all users
« Reply #4 on: September 23, 2014, 06:48:47 pm »
I think that EA specifies the path hard coded. So if there is no option you would likely have to go into EA's guts and patch it :-/

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Re: Registry Keys to keep data for all users
« Reply #5 on: September 23, 2014, 07:02:42 pm »
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I think that EA specifies the path hard coded. So if there is no option you would likely have to go into EA's guts and patch it :-/

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Well, where is it hard-coded? As another registry entry, or the worse- EA itself?
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Re: Registry Keys to keep data for all users
« Reply #6 on: September 23, 2014, 07:34:18 pm »
I suppose: EA itself  :(

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Re: Registry Keys to keep data for all users
« Reply #7 on: September 24, 2014, 08:01:36 am »
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Addins indeed can be registered for all users by locating the registry entry under LOCAL_MACHINE. My qustion is about the reg entries that are created by EA itself, such as version control keys.  
  
Did someone encounter or try this issue?
As I said. It's really not possible with recent versions of Windows because EA would be unable to save settings without running as administrator. EA will only look in the current user settings with the only exception that I know of being the installed add-ins.
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