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  General Settings file?
 
Being a student, it is not often I get to work on the same computer. I'll go to the computer lab, find a machine that's open, login with my student account and bingo, a new computer session. Due to how the school has the computer access setup, I (...) (21 years ago, 29-Nov-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
 
  Re: General Settings file?
 
(...) All the settings information is stored in the Windows registry. This mean that you won't be able to copy the info to your cd, especially if you only have acces to one folder. The reaon that the groups are saved is that MLCad stores the group (...) (21 years ago, 30-Nov-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
 
  Re: General Settings file?
 
(...) Actually, you should be able to export the settings from your main computer into a registry file. Then, put the file on the CD, and simply double click on it from Explorer to import the settings into the current registry. Before creating the (...) (21 years ago, 30-Nov-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
 
  Re: General Settings file?
 
(...) This assumes your account has permission to write to the registry. -Orion (21 years ago, 30-Nov-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
 
  Re: General Settings file?
 
(...) I'm not 100% sure, but I believe that all accounts have permission to write to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER portion of the registry. --Travis Cobbs (21 years ago, 30-Nov-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
 
  Re: General Settings file?
 
(...) I have the same situation as Mark Chittenden save that I use a Zip disk for everything. I now shall try out the registry export tactic. Thanks! --Ryan (URL) (21 years ago, 1-Dec-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
 
  Re: General Settings file?
 
MLCad needs read/write access to HKEY_CURRENT_USER. For registration MLCad needs access to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT as well, which seems to be a major problem for a normal user under Windows XP. Michael "Travis Cobbs" <tcobbs@REMOVE.halibut.com> schrieb im (...) (21 years ago, 3-Dec-03, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)

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