[Wine] Regedit issues, not owned by root

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Wed Aug 5 14:27:34 CDT 2009


On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Mokuren<wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
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> austin987 wrote:
>> Why do you need to run regedit as root?
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> No reason, it just felt weird that I couldn't

Playing around with root is dangerous.

> austin987 wrote:
>> When you say rename, do you mean recase? That fails on windows as
>> well. If renaming fails though, something is wrong.
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> I'm talking about renaming, I can create new keys that go by the default name (New Key #1 and so on) but any attempt at renaming does... Absolutely nothing.
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> I mean: it's not that I rename it and the name doesn't stick, I don't even get to edit the name in the first place, the command does absolutely nothing

Try in a clean wineprefix. What wine version?

-- 
-Austin



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