Re: autorun perhaps dangerous (Was: Wine release 0.9.53)

2008-01-16 Thread Alexandre Julliard
Scott Ritchie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> We might want to add an option for only executing these on wineboot.
> Hell, we might want to make this the default unless the user has a new
> Wine installation made with wineprefixcreate.
>
> As it is, this change might break things.

Any change might break things, that has never stopped us before ;-)

I agree we need a way to configure the Run entries to be able to remove
worms and other nuisances, but if running a legitimate app causes
trouble we want to fix it, not just force users to disable it; and the
way to find out about it is by running these entries and seeing what
happens.

Still, we don't need to debug it all at once, so I've disabled the Run
entries for now. This way we can first concentrate on fixing trouble
caused by services and RunOnce entries; but once this is done we
definitely want to enable them again.

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
[EMAIL PROTECTED]




Re: autorun perhaps dangerous (Was: Wine release 0.9.53)

2008-01-14 Thread L. Rahyen
On Monday January 14 2008 00:17:53 James McKenzie wrote:
> I have found that I CANNOT contribute code to this project.  However,
> this does not stop me from contributing my USD .02.
>
> Regedit serves a single purpose, editing the registry.  msconfig serves
> the purpose of editing the configuration of Windows and as a Windows
> 'hacker' I live on this program.  Of course, for simplicity's sake this
> can be a tab in winecfg, but for a Windows user/hacker moving to
> Linux/Wine adding a symlink to winecfg and the appropriate tab would be
> acceptable, but overlooking this requirement is not 'a good thing'.

I agree that it would be great to add additional tools such as 
msconfig. If 
it would be added we can make a tab in winecfg (or button in intuitive place 
of winecfg) for just running it. This would be intuitive for all users.
However as I said if we cannot include it there are "more or less" 
acceptable 
alternative way to solve the problem.
Personally I prefer inclusion of msconfig and possibility to run it 
from 
winecfg (along with ability to run it directly as msconfig).

> And adding the suprise of running Run Aways and Run Once is not nice.

Yeah, I remember how a lot of (mostly non-functional or partially 
functional) 
programs started automatically not only for me but also for my users (because 
of my multiuser setup).
By itself this is useful feature. But lack of proper configuration tool 
in 
clean WINE is the real problem currently...

> BTW, regedit is an absolute necessity to the Wine project, but it is
> also a very dangerous tool in the wrong hands.

This is certainly true.




Re: autorun perhaps dangerous (Was: Wine release 0.9.53)

2008-01-13 Thread James McKenzie
L. Rahyen wrote:
> On Sunday January 13 2008 20:45:49 Steven Edwards wrote:
>   
>> Because we
>> obviously don't care about whats convenient to people coming from a
>> windows background using that logic.
>> 
>
>   "We shouldn't care about Windows power users" != "we shouldn't care 
> about Linux users". Please note that I say nothing here about should we care 
> about Windows (power) users or not. I'm just pointing that your logic isn't 
> correct.
>   I try to explain why. First of all, msconfig and regedit cannot be 
> compared 
> like two utilities of same importance or like two programs intended for same 
> audience.
>   regedit is extremely popular, its use is intuitive for most Linux 
> users, and 
> it cannot be replaced with a tab in winecfg. It even cannot be replaced with 
> external Linux tools like text editor because wineserver will overwrite any 
> changes that was made by an external program (this is true of course only if 
> wineserver was running; you need to shutdown it before using external program 
> for registry editing).
>   msconfig is mostly intended for Window power users, its use isn't 
> intuitive 
> for most Linux users (in fact, it even isn't intuitive for most Windows users 
> too), and it can be replaced with a tab in winecfg (at least, its most 
> important functionality).
>   
L. Rahyen:

I have found that I CANNOT contribute code to this project.  However, 
this does not stop me from contributing my USD .02. 

Regedit serves a single purpose, editing the registry.  msconfig serves 
the purpose of editing the configuration of Windows and as a Windows 
'hacker' I live on this program.  Of course, for simplicity's sake this 
can be a tab in winecfg, but for a Windows user/hacker moving to 
Linux/Wine adding a symlink to winecfg and the appropriate tab would be 
acceptable, but overlooking this requirement is not 'a good thing'.  And 
adding the suprise of running Run Aways and Run Once is not nice.  A 
warning in the announcement would be nice and almost necessary for those 
folks running a combination Windows/Linux box, like I used to.  This was 
to overcome the massive number of Windows 'friends' like Storm.  So, I 
would implore the investigation of adding the necessary parts of 
msconfig to winecfg and before the actual release of Wine 1.0.

BTW, regedit is an absolute necessity to the Wine project, but it is 
also a very dangerous tool in the wrong hands.

Thank you.

James McKenzie





Re: autorun perhaps dangerous (Was: Wine release 0.9.53)

2008-01-13 Thread L. Rahyen
On Sunday January 13 2008 20:45:49 Steven Edwards wrote:
> My point in reply to Dmitry's comment was while I
> agree using winecfg for msconfig functionality is fine I was just
> using a reductio ad-absurdum to point out that if we are not going to
> make a wrapper program for msconfig for power windows users that are
> used to certain windows functionality because we don't care about them
> and the windows way of doing things, then why should we care about
> windows power users ablity to graphically edit the registry?

Because it is important for MOST Linux users who use WINE. Of course 
some 
users use regedit rarely, some frequently - but fact is that they are using 
it. For example, I use it but I know very little about Windows.
Most users will expect ability to edit startup keys in winecfg. And 
rest of 
users who didn't expect it to be there will learn about it very quickly - as 
soon as they run winecfg at least once.
As I have already said, use of winecfg will be intuitive for both Linux 
and 
Windows power users. I simply see no problem here.
I'm sure that there will be very little number of users who would use 
something else instead of winecfg when winecfg will have a tab for 
configurion startup keys.

> Because we
> obviously don't care about whats convenient to people coming from a
> windows background using that logic.

"We shouldn't care about Windows power users" != "we shouldn't care 
about Linux users". Please note that I say nothing here about should we care 
about Windows (power) users or not. I'm just pointing that your logic isn't 
correct.
I try to explain why. First of all, msconfig and regedit cannot be 
compared 
like two utilities of same importance or like two programs intended for same 
audience.
regedit is extremely popular, its use is intuitive for most Linux 
users, and 
it cannot be replaced with a tab in winecfg. It even cannot be replaced with 
external Linux tools like text editor because wineserver will overwrite any 
changes that was made by an external program (this is true of course only if 
wineserver was running; you need to shutdown it before using external program 
for registry editing).
msconfig is mostly intended for Window power users, its use isn't 
intuitive 
for most Linux users (in fact, it even isn't intuitive for most Windows users 
too), and it can be replaced with a tab in winecfg (at least, its most 
important functionality).
As you can see, there is a big difference. It is incorrect to ignore 
importance of regedit for Linux users. Why? Because if msconfig was very 
important then it (or at least its simplified replacement) can be even 
written from scratch. This is true for regedit but isn't true for msconfig.  
In other words, it is unlikely that someone will write it from scratch in 
near future because of very low demand; but if WINE will lack regedit utility 
it is very likely that someone will write it from scratch if necessary.
That just means regedit is important not only for Windows power users 
but for 
most of WINE users (including simple Linux users who are using WINE).




Re: autorun perhaps dangerous (Was: Wine release 0.9.53)

2008-01-13 Thread Steven Edwards
On Jan 13, 2008 8:39 AM, L. Rahyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you disagree with WINE policy related to ReactOS you need to talk 
> to AJ
> directly (for example, on IRC channel).  Multiple requests to exclude existing
> tools on wine-devel without good reasons will not help to make WINE or its
> current policy better, really.

The policy regarding ReactOS is not going to change and I really don't
care at this point. My point in reply to Dmitry's comment was while I
agree using winecfg for msconfig functionality is fine I was just
using a reductio ad-absurdum to point out that if we are not going to
make a wrapper program for msconfig for power windows users that are
used to certain windows functionality because we don't care about them
and the windows way of doing things, then why should we care about
windows power users ablity to graphically edit the registry? In
regedits case there would be two fold argument for removing it, 1.
Because it was contributed by ReactOS developers and 2. Because we
obviously don't care about whats convenient to people coming from a
windows background using that logic.


-- 
Steven Edwards

"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and
that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo




Re: autorun perhaps dangerous (Was: Wine release 0.9.53)

2008-01-13 Thread tony . wasserka
> There are quite a few installers that use RunOnce to get around file
> locking, but I still haven't had to use one fortunately. As I said, as
> long as I can disable it. RunOnce wouldn't even have to be disabled,
> I'd be happy with a "RunOnce wants to execute 'foo.exe blipp blopp',
> 'No, and clear it from registry', 'Sure' ".

I'd agree to that, but we could also do it at installer runtime, i.e. we check
in the Windows SetRegistryKey function(don't know the real name) if the key is
autostart related, interupt the installer program and ask the user if he
wants to allow that. The method of asking the user at RunOnce has IMO
the disadvantage that the user may not know what installer added
the RunOnce entry anymore (because it's a couple of days ago that the
last Wine instance was running or so).





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Re: autorun perhaps dangerous (Was: Wine release 0.9.53)

2008-01-13 Thread L. Rahyen
On Sunday January 13 2008 12:52:22 Steven Edwards wrote:
> On Jan 13, 2008 6:24 AM, Dmitry Timoshkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > My impression was that Wine follows the requests and demands of Linux
> > (and other supported OSes) users, not the Windows' ones regardless of
> > their powerfulness.
>
> Well most Windows power users are used to a graphical registry editor
> where Wine supports a text registry and we all know how much Linux
> users love flat text file manipulation. Perhaps we should revert the
> graphical registry editor for this and reasons I mentioned in the
> prior email

I see no reason to revert currently abailable tools without *really 
good* 
technical or legal reason. Sorry but this would be simply... not smart, 
really.
I like the ability to edit registry directly with text editor but this 
doesn't mean that I don't need GUI tool for that. Reasons are simple: with 
GUI I have tree with registry keys and with plain text I have sequence of 
registry keys. I think it is obvious why one would prefer tree instead of 
sequence in some cases and sequence instead of tree in other cases.
BTW, msconfig isn't very popular tool. Just compare how many Windows 
users 
have used regedit and how many have used msconfig (and how freqently it is 
used in comparison with regedit). And of course many Linux users simply don't 
know about it. This means that even if we include msconfig its use will not 
be as intuitive as winecfg use for purpose of editing startup keys. Therefore 
winecfg is better for that purpose. In fact, use of winecfg will be obvious 
for all WINE users - including Windows power users.
If we can include msconfig - good, but in my opinion its inclusion 
doesn't 
mean that winecfg shouldn't support editing of startup keys. Therefore, its 
inclusion or rejection isn't important to WINE Project (in other words, this 
is minor issue). As I said, winecfg is more convenient and intuitive for that 
purpose.

If you disagree with WINE policy related to ReactOS you need to talk to 
AJ 
directly (for example, on IRC channel).  Multiple requests to exclude existing 
tools on wine-devel without good reasons will not help to make WINE or its 
current policy better, really.




Re: autorun perhaps dangerous (Was: Wine release 0.9.53)

2008-01-13 Thread Peter Bortas
On 1/13/08, Dmitry Timoshkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Peter Bortas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > And a flag to turn off this behaviour. So far I've never had a setup
> > where I'd want the Run/RunOnce entries to execute.
>
> For instance Microsoft Office finishes its setup process when being run
> from the RunOnce key after reboot.

There are quite a few installers that use RunOnce to get around file
locking, but I still haven't had to use one fortunately. As I said, as
long as I can disable it. RunOnce wouldn't even have to be disabled,
I'd be happy with a "RunOnce wants to execute 'foo.exe blipp blopp',
'No, and clear it from registry', 'Sure' ".

-- 
Peter Bortas




Re: autorun perhaps dangerous (Was: Wine release 0.9.53)

2008-01-13 Thread Steven Edwards
On Jan 13, 2008 6:24 AM, Dmitry Timoshkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My impression was that Wine follows the requests and demands of Linux
> (and other supported OSes) users, not the Windows' ones regardless of
> their powerfulness.

Well most Windows power users are used to a graphical registry editor
where Wine supports a text registry and we all know how much Linux
users love flat text file manipulation. Perhaps we should revert the
graphical registry editor for this and reasons I mentioned in the
prior email

-- 
Steven Edwards

"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and
that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo




Re: autorun perhaps dangerous (Was: Wine release 0.9.53)

2008-01-13 Thread Dmitry Timoshkov
"Peter Bortas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> And a flag to turn off this behaviour. So far I've never had a setup
> where I'd want the Run/RunOnce entries to execute.

For instance Microsoft Office finishes its setup process when being run
from the RunOnce key after reboot.

-- 
Dmitry.




Re: autorun perhaps dangerous (Was: Wine release 0.9.53)

2008-01-13 Thread Dmitry Timoshkov
"Steven Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> This is true. I am just saying most windows power uses expect msconfig
> to be there these days. We could have a dummy msconfig thats just a
> wrapper and invokes winecfg on the correct page. Being as we don't
> follow the design windows power users expect by having CPL applets and
> the like, it would make sense to stick it in winecfg with everything
> else I guess...

My impression was that Wine follows the requests and demands of Linux
(and other supported OSes) users, not the Windows' ones regardless of
their powerfulness.

-- 
Dmitry.




Re: autorun perhaps dangerous (Was: Wine release 0.9.53)

2008-01-13 Thread Peter Bortas
On 1/11/08, Marcus Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 05:36:04PM +0100, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> > This is release 0.9.53 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix.
> >
> > What's new in this release:
> >   - RunOnce and Run entries now executed on startup.
>
> This will probably give some fallout ;)
>
> I wanted to write earlier, but did forget about it over the last
> days.
>
> For my grown Wine installation this now starts:
>
> - 2 instances of a Windows Worm
> - Google Talk (not working)
> - Skype (crashing)
> - pccam.exe from some digital camera disk
> - the annoying Steam.exe auto-update and ask-for-subscription dialog
> - perhaps more
>
> and this even on "make check" :(
>
> We probably need some tool to edit Run and RunOnce entries now.

And a flag to turn off this behaviour. So far I've never had a setup
where I'd want the Run/RunOnce entries to execute.

--
Peter Bortas




Re: autorun perhaps dangerous (Was: Wine release 0.9.53)

2008-01-13 Thread Steven Edwards
On Jan 13, 2008 4:18 AM, Dmitry Timoshkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't see why winecfg can't have a page similar to what msconfig has.
> It not hard to add it to winecfg, there is nothing magic in the reactos
> version.

This is true. I am just saying most windows power uses expect msconfig
to be there these days. We could have a dummy msconfig thats just a
wrapper and invokes winecfg on the correct page. Being as we don't
follow the design windows power users expect by having CPL applets and
the like, it would make sense to stick it in winecfg with everything
else I guess...

-- 
Steven Edwards

"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and
that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo




Re: autorun perhaps dangerous (Was: Wine release 0.9.53)

2008-01-13 Thread Dmitry Timoshkov
"Steven Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Winecfg is not really the place for it. Windows power users expect to
> have msconfigits a shame we can't lift the one from ReactOS
> because they have a working LGPL replacement.

I don't see why winecfg can't have a page similar to what msconfig has.
It not hard to add it to winecfg, there is nothing magic in the reactos
version.

-- 
Dmitry.




Re: autorun perhaps dangerous (Was: Wine release 0.9.53)

2008-01-12 Thread Steven Edwards
On Jan 13, 2008 12:54 AM, Austin English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Why not? Was it reverse engineered? Or is there some other reason
> preventing its integration?

The general policy is to no longer accept code from ReactOS though the
Wine taskmgr and registry editor were developed by ReactOS developers.
It should be obvious that its cleanly implemented so I don't know if
there is any way Alexandre would make an exception to import it. There
is really nothing to be reversed from this tool and Colin's version is
under the correct license so I don't see any reason why it should be
rejected. Its not like its some low level library without
documentation or anything. If we can't merge it due to policy then I
think taskmgr and regedit should be remove from Winehq git.

http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos/trunk/reactos/base/applications/msconfig/

-- 
Steven Edwards

"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and
that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo




Re: autorun perhaps dangerous (Was: Wine release 0.9.53)

2008-01-12 Thread Austin English
Why not? Was it reverse engineered? Or is there some other reason
preventing its integration?

- Austin

On 1/12/08, Steven Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jan 12, 2008 2:15 PM, Brian Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Until someone comes up with the addition to winecfg to edit the Run and
> > RunOnce keys (and it really seems like that is what we need), we should
> > probably detect if those keys have changed and pop up a dialog on the next
> > wineboot that says: "The Run or RunOnce registry keys have changed, probably
> > because you installed a new application.  We're now going to execute them,
> > but be prepared for something to explode and steal your lunch money.  You
> > can repair anything broken by running "wine regedit" and editing
> > HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run"
>
> Winecfg is not really the place for it. Windows power users expect to
> have msconfigits a shame we can't lift the one from ReactOS
> because they have a working LGPL replacement.
>
> --
> Steven Edwards
>
> "There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and
> that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo
>
>
>




Re: autorun perhaps dangerous (Was: Wine release 0.9.53)

2008-01-12 Thread Steven Edwards
On Jan 12, 2008 2:15 PM, Brian Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Until someone comes up with the addition to winecfg to edit the Run and
> RunOnce keys (and it really seems like that is what we need), we should
> probably detect if those keys have changed and pop up a dialog on the next
> wineboot that says: "The Run or RunOnce registry keys have changed, probably
> because you installed a new application.  We're now going to execute them,
> but be prepared for something to explode and steal your lunch money.  You
> can repair anything broken by running "wine regedit" and editing
> HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run"

Winecfg is not really the place for it. Windows power users expect to
have msconfigits a shame we can't lift the one from ReactOS
because they have a working LGPL replacement.

-- 
Steven Edwards

"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and
that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo




Re: autorun perhaps dangerous (Was: Wine release 0.9.53)

2008-01-12 Thread Brian Vincent
Until someone comes up with the addition to winecfg to edit the Run and
RunOnce keys (and it really seems like that is what we need), we should
probably detect if those keys have changed and pop up a dialog on the next
wineboot that says: "The Run or RunOnce registry keys have changed, probably
because you installed a new application.  We're now going to execute them,
but be prepared for something to explode and steal your lunch money.  You
can repair anything broken by running "wine regedit" and editing
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run"

-Brian



Re: autorun perhaps dangerous (Was: Wine release 0.9.53)

2008-01-12 Thread Marcel Partap
..also, a very good utility to handle the autorun stuff is autoruns.exe from 
the Sysinternals Suite.
Actually, the whole suite is a very good testbed for wine as it contains low 
level monitoring tools
like Diskmon.exe, Filemon.exe, Tcpview.exe, procexp.exe, portmon.exe, 
Winobj.exe.. many of those
fail on module:NtLoadDriver stub but some like process explorer or the autoruns 
tool work almost
perfectly fine. Running the splendid bluescreen screensaver would be totally 
awesome too, but that
needs native ntoskrnl.exe to fetch the bootlogo..
by the way yes, sysinternals has been bought by M$ mid 2006, and of course the 
first thing they did
is introduce a nasty legal pop-up to all of the utils, but having a short look 
at it we should be
fine using it to debug WiNE ;)
regards




Re: autorun perhaps dangerous (Was: Wine release 0.9.53)

2008-01-12 Thread Scott Ritchie
Marcus Meissner wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 05:36:04PM +0100, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
>> This is release 0.9.53 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix.
>>
>> What's new in this release:
>>   - RunOnce and Run entries now executed on startup.
> 
> This will probably give some fallout ;)
> 
> I wanted to write earlier, but did forget about it over the last
> days.
> 
> For my grown Wine installation this now starts:
> 
> - 2 instances of a Windows Worm
> - Google Talk (not working)
> - Skype (crashing)
> - pccam.exe from some digital camera disk
> - the annoying Steam.exe auto-update and ask-for-subscription dialog
> - perhaps more
> 
> and this even on "make check" :(
> 
> We probably need some tool to edit Run and RunOnce entries now.
> 
> Ciao, Marcus

We might want to add an option for only executing these on wineboot.
Hell, we might want to make this the default unless the user has a new
Wine installation made with wineprefixcreate.

As it is, this change might break things.

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie




Re: autorun perhaps dangerous (Was: Wine release 0.9.53)

2008-01-11 Thread Vincent Povirk
I've found Mike Lin's Startup Control Panel
(http://mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml) very useful for this on windows. It
appears to work on Wine, though I don't seem to have any Run or
RunOnce entries so can't be sure.

On Jan 11, 2008 11:48 AM, Marcus Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 05:36:04PM +0100, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> > This is release 0.9.53 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix.
> >
> > What's new in this release:
> >   - RunOnce and Run entries now executed on startup.
>
> This will probably give some fallout ;)
>
> I wanted to write earlier, but did forget about it over the last
> days.
>
> For my grown Wine installation this now starts:
>
> - 2 instances of a Windows Worm
> - Google Talk (not working)
> - Skype (crashing)
> - pccam.exe from some digital camera disk
> - the annoying Steam.exe auto-update and ask-for-subscription dialog
> - perhaps more
>
> and this even on "make check" :(
>
> We probably need some tool to edit Run and RunOnce entries now.
>
> Ciao, Marcus
>
>
>



-- 
Vincent Povirk




Re: autorun perhaps dangerous (Was: Wine release 0.9.53)

2008-01-11 Thread Christian Gmeiner
2008/1/11, Marcus Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 05:36:04PM +0100, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> > This is release 0.9.53 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on
> Unix.
> >
> > What's new in this release:
> >   - RunOnce and Run entries now executed on startup.
>
> This will probably give some fallout ;)
>
> I wanted to write earlier, but did forget about it over the last
> days.
>
> For my grown Wine installation this now starts:
>
> - 2 instances of a Windows Worm
> - Google Talk (not working)
> - Skype (crashing)
> - pccam.exe from some digital camera disk
> - the annoying Steam.exe auto-update and ask-for-subscription dialog
> - perhaps more
>
> and this even on "make check" :(
>
> We probably need some tool to edit Run and RunOnce entries now.


wine regedit

Maybe it would be a good idea to have an option to make us of this new
feature...

greets,
Christian



Re: autorun perhaps dangerous (Was: Wine release 0.9.53)

2008-01-11 Thread Maarten Lankhorst
Marcus Meissner schreef:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 05:36:04PM +0100, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
>   
>> This is release 0.9.53 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix.
>>
>> What's new in this release:
>>   - RunOnce and Run entries now executed on startup.
>> 
>
> This will probably give some fallout ;)
>
> I wanted to write earlier, but did forget about it over the last
> days.
>
> For my grown Wine installation this now starts:
>
> - 2 instances of a Windows Worm
> - Google Talk (not working)
> - Skype (crashing)
> - pccam.exe from some digital camera disk
> - the annoying Steam.exe auto-update and ask-for-subscription dialog
> - perhaps more
>
> and this even on "make check" :(
>
> We probably need some tool to edit Run and RunOnce entries now.
>   
Agreed, and be able to disable them entirely, I have a program that
crashes during autorun, so my virtual wine desktop wouldn't close even
with nothing visible.

-Maarten




Re: autorun perhaps dangerous (Was: Wine release 0.9.53)

2008-01-11 Thread John Klehm
On Jan 11, 2008 10:48 AM, Marcus Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> We probably need some tool to edit Run and RunOnce entries now.
>

>maybe we need a tool like msconfig for managing services or a page on winecfg.

Id say so, a one stop place for anything that has a chance to get
executed on startup:

* HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
* HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
* HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
* HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
* HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ RunServices
* HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ RunServicesOnce
* HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ RunOnce\Setup
above are listed from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/137367
* HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx
* HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
* HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
* HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Userinit
* HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows
* autoexec.bat
* config.sys
* startup folder
* system.ini


Any other areas that windows uses to launch programs when starting up?

Regards,
John Klehm




Re: autorun perhaps dangerous (Was: Wine release 0.9.53)

2008-01-11 Thread Steven Edwards
On Jan 11, 2008 12:06 PM, Stefan Dösinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I agree it is a pain with "make test" though, and some way to easilly edit
> these keys would be helpful

maybe we need a tool like msconfig for managing services or a page on winecfg.


-- 
Steven Edwards

"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and
that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo




Re: autorun perhaps dangerous (Was: Wine release 0.9.53)

2008-01-11 Thread Stefan Dösinger
Am Freitag, 11. Januar 2008 17:48:06 schrieb Marcus Meissner:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 05:36:04PM +0100, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> > This is release 0.9.53 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix.
> >
> > What's new in this release:
> >   - RunOnce and Run entries now executed on startup.
>
> This will probably give some fallout ;)
>
> I wanted to write earlier, but did forget about it over the last
> days.
>
> For my grown Wine installation this now starts:
>
> - 2 instances of a Windows Worm
> - Google Talk (not working)
> - Skype (crashing)
> - pccam.exe from some digital camera disk
> - the annoying Steam.exe auto-update and ask-for-subscription dialog
> - perhaps more
Works as it is supposed to then :-)

I agree it is a pain with "make test" though, and some way to easilly edit 
these keys would be helpful





autorun perhaps dangerous (Was: Wine release 0.9.53)

2008-01-11 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 05:36:04PM +0100, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> This is release 0.9.53 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix.
> 
> What's new in this release:
>   - RunOnce and Run entries now executed on startup.

This will probably give some fallout ;)

I wanted to write earlier, but did forget about it over the last
days.

For my grown Wine installation this now starts:

- 2 instances of a Windows Worm
- Google Talk (not working)
- Skype (crashing)
- pccam.exe from some digital camera disk
- the annoying Steam.exe auto-update and ask-for-subscription dialog
- perhaps more

and this even on "make check" :(

We probably need some tool to edit Run and RunOnce entries now.

Ciao, Marcus