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Posted by Zeno   USA  (2,871 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #15 on Tue 07 Dec 2004 04:36 PM (UTC)
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I'm not running a guest account. I have my own user, although it doesn't have full admin rights.
Zeno McDohl,
Owner of Bleached InuYasha Galaxy
http://www.biyg.org
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,173 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #16 on Tue 07 Dec 2004 06:27 PM (UTC)
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I just tried it on XP. I uninstalled it, which should have cleared out the registry, and then without installing it, just ran from the archive (mushclient356.tar.gz) that I just created for another user. There was no message box.
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Zeno   USA  (2,871 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #17 on Tue 07 Dec 2004 06:52 PM (UTC)
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Here's the problem I would assume. Since I don't have full admin rights, I can't write to the C drive. Since I installed MC there without admin rights, it didn't write some data to the C drive, even though I installed it to my drive, the H drive. Or maybe I can't edit the registry. But I think I can.
Zeno McDohl,
Owner of Bleached InuYasha Galaxy
http://www.biyg.org
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,173 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #18 on Tue 07 Dec 2004 07:03 PM (UTC)
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But it doesn't need to write data to the C drive. MUSHclient isn't the sort of program that needs to start writing all over your disk. It just starts up, opens the socket library and does what it is told.

Maybe the registry is the problem.
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Zeno   USA  (2,871 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #19 on Tue 07 Dec 2004 07:19 PM (UTC)
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Might be. Tomorrow when I am back at Cisco I'll try regedit. Although I'm pretty sure I can edit it, that's what needs to be done in Cisco Networking anyways.
Zeno McDohl,
Owner of Bleached InuYasha Galaxy
http://www.biyg.org
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Posted by Poromenos   Greece  (1,037 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #20 on Tue 07 Dec 2004 08:56 PM (UTC)
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OK, this is what I did:
Clean installed WinXP SP2 (although it happens on 2k for me too)
Enabled guest account, logged in as guest.
Copied MC, lua.dll and lualib.dll to the desktop.
Started MC.
Got message box.
Vidi, Vici, Veni.
http://porocrom.poromenos.org/ Read it!
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Posted by Zeno   USA  (2,871 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #21 on Wed 08 Dec 2004 03:28 PM (UTC)
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Hmm, looks like this is why. If you can't edit the registry, it'll do this.

I'm at Cisco now:
Quote:
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Registry Editor
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Registry editing has been disabled by your administrator.
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OK
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*nod*
Zeno McDohl,
Owner of Bleached InuYasha Galaxy
http://www.biyg.org
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Posted by Poromenos   Greece  (1,037 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #22 on Wed 08 Dec 2004 07:16 PM (UTC)
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Programs can still write at HKCU, I *think*, just not HKLM et al. Maybe it's not so on the guest account.
Vidi, Vici, Veni.
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,173 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #23 on Wed 08 Dec 2004 09:29 PM (UTC)
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OK, I've got to the bottom of it.

When MUSHclient starts up it tries to register itself as an OLE server (so other apps can use the world object in scripting). On the guest account it can't, and the error message string was not in the executable. It should read:

Quote:

Failed to update the system registry.
Please try using REGEDIT.


I'm not sure that is a heap more helpful - try using Regedit to do what?

Anyway, I've added that string into version 3.57.
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,173 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #24 on Wed 08 Dec 2004 09:33 PM (UTC)
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In fact, I think I'll reword it to:

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Unable to register as an OLE server. This may happen if you are using a Guest account. You can safely ignore this message.

- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Poromenos   Greece  (1,037 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #25 on Wed 08 Dec 2004 09:34 PM (UTC)
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Can you remove it altogether and make it a statusbar message or a notepad warning? It's kinda annoying having to click it each and every time.
Vidi, Vici, Veni.
http://porocrom.poromenos.org/ Read it!
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,173 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #26 on Wed 08 Dec 2004 09:35 PM (UTC)
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I should point out however that you can still update the registry for personal use. For example, I registered my copy under the Guest account.
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,173 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #27 on Wed 08 Dec 2004 09:36 PM (UTC)
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Quote:

Can you remove it altogether ...


I don't do the message, I call the code that eventually does the message. If I remove it then it may fail to register under "normal" situations, like when you really want it to register itself.
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Poromenos   Greece  (1,037 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #28 on Wed 08 Dec 2004 09:43 PM (UTC)
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Ah, I see. Which call is that? Does it still display the box if you pass NULL as the text or something? It's not really that big a problem, just being curious.
Vidi, Vici, Veni.
http://porocrom.poromenos.org/ Read it!
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Posted by Poromenos   Greece  (1,037 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #29 on Wed 08 Dec 2004 09:44 PM (UTC)
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Actually opening the helpfile and the new installation dialog are the more annoying, in that order, because it never stores the settings and it always thinks it's the first time, and also it can't find the helpfile because i only have the .exe, so it asks me to browse for it.
Vidi, Vici, Veni.
http://porocrom.poromenos.org/ Read it!
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