[Qgis-user] QGIS and Windows Registry

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi,

I have a quick question about QGIS-Settings on Windows. The QGIS manual
writes that the settings are in the registry at
\\HKEY\CURRENT\USER\Software\QuantumGIS\qgis

My question is if this applies both to the native Windows port and to the
OSGeo4W port? Are both using the same places to store settings?

In the manual there seems to be a slight mistake:

\\HKEY\CURRENT\USER\Software\QuantumGIS\qgis
should actually be
\\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\QuantumGIS\qgis

Note the underscores instead of the backslashes.

On one of my Windows machines (with reduced user rights) storing the
settings doesn't work. I wonder if our sysadmins disabled write-access to
the Registry, since I can't find
\\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\QuantumGIS\qgis after starting and closing
QGIS.

Thanks for a quick feedback on the topic,
Andreas

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Andreas Neumann
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