From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Cc: not.com@gmail.com, 11612@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11612: 24.1; Defaults create warning on startup
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 07:22:54 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ipf7bt9d.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zk8j7n1i.fsf@gnu.org>
> From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
> Cc: "'yary'" <not.com@gmail.com>, "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz@gnu.org>, 11612@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 11:50:49 +0800
>
> Given that in Windows 7 writing to c:\ requires administrative
> priviledges, perhaps we should be more strongly discouraging setting
> HOME to c:\ for users who are blindly copying obsolete instructions they
> find on the internet.
Maybe. But the current situation was the necessary first step anyway,
because someone who sets HOME to C:\ at least did something deliberate
she might remember.
OTOH, I kinda gather that lots of people disable UAC on Windows 7, so
perhaps the issue is no more pressing now than it was with XP.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-04 4:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-02 18:58 bug#11612: 24.1; Defaults create warning on startup yary
2012-06-02 19:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-06-02 19:43 ` yary
2012-06-02 19:46 ` Drew Adams
2012-06-02 19:57 ` yary
2013-04-23 14:05 ` Michael
2013-04-23 17:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-06-03 19:38 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-06-04 3:50 ` Jason Rumney
2012-06-04 4:22 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2012-06-04 13:24 ` Drew Adams
2016-06-25 3:28 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-06-25 4:31 ` Drew Adams
2016-06-25 8:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-25 13:42 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-06-25 13:51 ` yary
2016-06-25 14:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-25 15:30 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-06-25 15:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-27 1:01 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-06-27 11:15 ` Andy Moreton
2016-06-27 12:04 ` Noam Postavsky
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