wineboot: Start items in StartUp folder on boot.

Misha Koshelev mk144210 at bcm.tmc.edu
Fri Feb 9 22:45:06 CST 2007


On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 21:20 -0700, Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
> Misha Koshelev wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > As you all may have noticed, I have been making quite a few patches
> > within the last two weeks (or at least quite a few when compared to zero
> > before then) because I had figured out that the Vector NTI program that
> > is quite important in molecular biologThis patch makes sure that wine
> > will start items in the StartUp folder
> IMHO this should not be fixed.
> 
> I've seen lots and lots of malicious programs using this mechanism to
> start themselves. And even worse if installer uses this to restart
> itself. That means this installer might not work most of the time on
> windows.
> 
> Vitaliy.

Well that is fair if that is the consensus. I did try the installer on a
plain Win98 system and this restart does work for it there. Maybe have
some kind of option to optionally do this or is that out of the question
too?

Thanks for the info.

Misha



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