> We installed ImageMagick 6.6.0 32-bit Q8 on a Windows 2003 Server and > observed that it added the following registry key: > > [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications] > "AutoRun"="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\ImageMagick-6.6.0-Q8\\convert.exe $*"
I cannot see any use in this. I have just deleted this entry, started Windows anew and convert -version still calls IM's version of convert.exe, not the system tool. As pointed out in http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/windows/#convert_issue , the re-ordering of the path environment variable solved this problem, with no need for a registry key. To be on the sure side which 'convert' you call, you can use the strategies explained in http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/windows/#debugging . > Now I did some research as to why this could be useful and only found > some quite old article [1] about the problems distinguishing Microsoft's > convert.exe (FAT to NTFS conversion) and ImageMagick's own convert.exe. > The solution outlined consists of adding a new Autorun registry key like > this: > > [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor] > "AutoRun"="doskey convert=%MAGICK_HOME%\\convert.exe $*" I think this page is rather outdated. There is no environment variable called MAGICK_HOME in current Windows versions of IM. Wolfgang Hugemann _______________________________________________ Magick-users mailing list [email protected] http://studio.imagemagick.org/mailman/listinfo/magick-users
