POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.windows: pvengine.ini now integrated into the registry?: Re: pvengine.ini now integrated into the registry?

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From: Jeff Houck
Date: 24 Feb 2008 10:55:19
Message: <47c19367$1@news.povray.org>

Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> Jeff Houck wrote:
>> In the latest Beta 3.7.beta25 change log, it mentions the pvengine.ini 
>> file is now integrated into the Windows registry. I'm curious as to 
>> why this was done? The editor I can understand due to it's tight 
>> integration with the Windows GUI manager. But why the pvengine.ini? Thx.
> 
> Vista compatibility :-(
> 
>     Thorsten, POV-Team

Ah, I see... Then I'm assuming this will alleviate some of the issues 
with the "security model" now implemented in Vista... especially as 
applied to User Account Control. Symantec has a very good paper on the 
subject and goes into more detail concerning DEP and ASLR too.
Thx Thorsten for the info...

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