[AccessD] The Annoying Flash - Redux

...call it paranoia but its my experience ...Access is not an app I will
call the registry from if there is another way.

William Hindman
"The world's becoming a museum of socialist failures." John Dos Passos


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gustav Brock" <gustav at cactus.dk>
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving"
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2004 1:22 PM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] The Annoying Flash - Redux


> Hi William
>
> You must be in your paranoid corner this afternoon.
>
> The registry is supposed to be written to, Windows and most apps do it
> every second, and you have no other way to do it than through well
> documented API calls. If something happens no one can or will blame
> your app but Windows itself or some hardware failure.
>
> /gustav
>
>
> > ...yikes ...certainly not disputing your facts gustav but I avoid
changing
> > the registry programmatically at almost any cost ...no more certain way
to
> > destroy a Windows computer than corrupting the registry ...and doing so
> > programmatically from Access without backing it up first is, imnsho, an
> > exercise in Russian Roulette ...not my favorite game :(
>
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