[AccessD] The Annoying Flash - Redux

I see it differently too, William.  Our commercial Access applications
regularly make use of registry keys, as does every other application
running under Windows.  Our own keys are established in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and HKEY_CURRENT_USER when the application is
installed, updated with the application is run, and removed if someone
tampers with the license.  How does that make an Access app any flakier
than any other Windows apps?  Windows applications work through the
registry, so they can't really avoid writing to it.  In fact, unless you
work hard at intentionally screwing up the registry from Access through
the API, it just not going to happen.

Charlotte Foust

-----Original Message-----
From: William Hindman [mailto:wdhindman at bellsouth.net] 
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2004 2:02 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] The Annoying Flash - Redux


...ime, it corrupts far too easily Susan ...a corrupt mdb is one thing
...a corrupt registry is quite another ...when necessary I'll set
registry entries manually or from the apis but only when a full bu is
available ...flipping registry settings on/off from Access is pushing
the envelope a bit more than I care to do ...gustav sees it differently
...caveat emptor :)

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


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Susan Harkins" <ssharkins at bellsouth.net>
To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'"
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2004 3:53 PM
Subject: RE: [AccessD] The Annoying Flash - Redux


> Why? How is Access more unstable in this regard than any other
application?
>
> Susan H.
>
> ...call it paranoia but its my experience ...Access is not an app I 
> will call the registry from if there is another way.
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