Larry Hall (Cygwin <reply-to-list-only-lh <at> cygwin.com> writes: <snipped> > 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
