> Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 23:18:18 +0100
> From: Thomas
> Subject: Re: Please upload: mined-2000.16-0
> > The reason is that, at least on Windows 7, there is no key called
> > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\SystemFileAssociations.
> >
> > The result is that a user of Windows 7 gets a postinstall warning from
> > setup.exe because the mined postinstall script returns a non-zero exit
> > code.
> >
> >
> > Corinna
> Hi, thanks for the notice.
> Actually I'm aware that there is this postinstall return problem also in
> Windows XP and I've fixed it but the code base isn't quite ready yet for
> the next release - can it still wait for a short while?
> On the other hand, if the key doesn't exist because the mechanism has
> changed in Windows 7, I'm not sure what to do because I don't have W7
> myself for testing - any advice by someone? Just some other key name
> perhaps?
Why is mined by default messing with this? Isn't this something that the user
should run if he/she wants to alter file associations/context menu stuff?
Thanks,
...Karl
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