NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #26/NN_1992_26.iso/spool/comp/os/mswindo/programm/win32/1919

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From: [e-mail] (Eric Perkins)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: RE: Word for Windows:
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Date: 11 Nov 92 14:21:47 GMT
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Here is some things that I have seen with Word 4 Windows:

I installed NT, and then copy all of my old Windows apps over to
an NTFS partition. I did this so that I could be sure that no
virus would corrupt or destroy any of my executable files.

I proceeded to set up the access rights to all of these Windows 3.x
executables as execute only (and possibly read only).

I then when to fire up Word for Windows.

Everything worked fine, but when I went to exit WFW, it complained that
it could not write the .INI file that I had marked as read only and
execute only.

That was all fine.

I then set up some user directories and gave each user access to their
own directory.

Now when each user uses WFW, then can use the one executable and
work on their own documents.

The problem is that each user has a different set of WFW preferences
and from what I can tell their is no way to set it up so that
each user saves only their own preferences.

One person likes the button bar, the other does not. What happends is that
as the users log on and use WFW, they have to contantly reconfigure
WFW to their preferences.

- Is there any way to save the .INI file for WFW off in a separate user
  directory?

What is  even worse, given all of this security stuff, the list of
the last 4 files that have been edited is kept at the bottom of the File
menu. This is the last 4 from the last user. This means that uses A
can set these to their last 4 files, and then user B comes along and
not only can see the file names of which files were being edited, but
then cannot have access to those files!

So the general problem looks like how can you set up NT to allow separate
preferences for each user of Windows 3.x and Windows NT apps?
Are there APIs for this and is there a way to set up NT for the Windows 3.x
case?

-- Eric
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