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From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten AT thorstenkampe DOT de>
Subject: Re: AllVersions: Running Cygwin X w/ Registy Entries
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 10:26:36 +0100
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* gtg793x AT mail DOT gatech DOT edu (2005-10-26 00:45 +0100)
> Quoting Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>:
>> See "man mount".  Please, please, please don't manipulate the registry
>> directly if you want to stay portable.  You can easily create a batch file
>> to reproduce the mounts properly.
>> ...
>> "User mounts" is the answer.  The CURRENT_USER tree is usually writable.
>> Make sure you don't write over the existing settings if they are present.
> 
> Current XP computers I am trying to run this into give me: "Registry Editing has
> been Disabled by your administrator." even if I try to write to Current_User
> 
> All I am trying to keep portable is the X server thus XWIN.exe is the only
> executable I have, the only one I execute. After running the X server as the
> background server I am tunneling the packets using Putty / Securecrt.

Try "regedit /s" in a batch (instead of double clicking). This
sometimes works.


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