[Wine]Quicken 2004 Report windows

M-Halo masochisthalo at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 12 11:37:22 CDT 2004


> > Hmm...  Looks like I have a way to save time now.
> :) 
> > However, doesn't the registry get wiped out with
> every
> > new install?
> > 
> 
> No, it has never done that. I cannot speak for what
> binary installers 
> have done in the past (I have never used one), but
> certainly that has 
> never been true for source code/compiled
> installations.
> 
> With current versions of Wine, registry creation is
> a runtime task. That 
> is, when Wine is run, it looks for a ~/.wine
> directory. If none is 
> found, it creates one and populates it with default
> registry entries. If 
> a ~/.wine is already there, is is left untouched.

Very interesting...  I used to have these concerns,
and then a few weeks ago, I saw them echoed on
Winehq.com .  See here:
http://www.winehq.com/?issue=242#Upgrade%20Management

Hiji


		
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