wineboot: Start items in StartUp folder on boot.

John Smith xixsimplicityxix at gmail.com
Sat Feb 10 01:29:45 CST 2007


I thought wine's goal was "bug for bug" with windows, for good or for ill.

On 2/9/07, Misha Koshelev <mk144210 at bcm.tmc.edu> wrote:
>
> 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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