[wpkg-users] Registry shortcuts...

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

Josh Kelley wrote:
> On 11/24/06, Marco Gaiarin <gaio at sv.lnf.it> wrote:
>> Implementing thunderbird installation with setting it default mail and
>> news client i've got some trouble.
>>
>> Registry exerpt have some sort of 'variables', like @ShortProgFiles,
>> but seems they does not work, and seems that there's no mention of it
>> elsewhere.
>>
>> Typo? I'm missing something?
> 
> Maybe I'm missing something, but the @ShortProgFiles on the wiki page
> doesn't look correct to me; at least, it's not something I've ever
> seen before.

It is correct, and works for me. At least on a German-language version 
of Windows.


> I put together my own .reg file to set Thunderbird as the default
> system-wide mail client for our site; you can download it from
> http://www.jbc.edu/~josh/thunderbird.reg.  I'd be curious to know how
> it works; if it works for you, then maybe I should update the WPKG
> wiki?

What happens if you save it as regedit4 file (normal txt)?


> We also use DefaultMail (http://windowsxp.mvps.org/defaultmail.htm) to
> let users pick the default mail client on a per-user basis, since most
> mail clients don't properly permit that themselves.

Can it be scripted?


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Tomasz Chmielewski
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