Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/05/29/02:52:56
Larry Hall (Cygwin <reply-to-list-only-lh <at> cygwin.com> writes:
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> The key words here are "If you use Registry Editor incorrectly". In other
> words, if you modify something other than what's recommended, you might
> cause yourself other problems. This is standard boiler-plate legalese that's
> spewed whenever mention of changing the registry is uttered by MS (and
> others). While you are free to interpret it as you wish and you are, of
> course, under no obligation to make these or any other changes in the
> registry via the registry editor, you should not feel like the above means
> that you should not edit your registry. For those occassions where you do
> edit the registry yourself, just do so with care.
I know, but my emplyer provides this PC for me - I am neither prepared to nor
supposed to act as "root" doing major surgery on the Windows system registry and
break it. Cygwin is in this context what makes MS OS a mostly acceptable working
environment, thanks.
Torfinn
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