[Qgis-user] QGIS and Windows Registry

[Tim Sutton]

Hi Andreas

Andreas Neumann wrote:
> 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?

They are pretty much the same thing, both built on MSVC, just packaged 
differently. Even the mingw builds (if someone picks them up again) 
should write to the same registry location.

> 
> 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.

There is actually a possibility in Qt4 to write settings to somewhere 
other than the registry (using similar approach to linux and mac), 
though you have to do extra work to get that and writing to the registry 
seems to be the standard for win so it probably makes more sense.

Regards
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