POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.windows: Problem with POV-Ray in Windows 2000

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From: Harry Johnston
Subject: Problem with POV-Ray in Windows 2000
Date: 5 Apr 2001 00:39:47
Message: <3ACBF70C.31FDF0FF@scms.waikato.ac.nz>

Hi,

There appears to be a fairly serious cosmetic problem with POV-Ray under
Windows 2000.  Whenever a non-Administrative user exists POV-Ray the
following error message appears:

ERegistryException: Failed to set data for 'AutoIndent'

Allowing any user to edit the contents of the registry under
SOFTWARE\POV-Ray solves the problem, but isn't acceptable in a student
computer lab.

Any hope of this one being fixed in 3.5?

  Harry.

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From: MPunk3
Subject: Re: Problem with POV-Ray in Windows 2000
Date: 6 Apr 2001 16:13:11
Message: <3ace2357@news.povray.org>

You can lock down the registry under NT4 as well, so it isn't a Win2K issue.
Actually I think I read WinME adheres to domain security policies, too, so
it might even affect WinME.

You're right, though, this should be stored in HKEY_CURRENT_USER and not
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.


"Harry Johnston" <har### [at] scmswaikatoacnz> wrote in message
news:3ACBF70C.31FDF0FF@scms.waikato.ac.nz...
> Hi,
>
> There appears to be a fairly serious cosmetic problem with POV-Ray under
> Windows 2000.  Whenever a non-Administrative user exists POV-Ray the
> following error message appears:
>
> ERegistryException: Failed to set data for 'AutoIndent'
>
> Allowing any user to edit the contents of the registry under
> SOFTWARE\POV-Ray solves the problem, but isn't acceptable in a student
> computer lab.
>
> Any hope of this one being fixed in 3.5?
>
>   Harry.

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