Re: OTP - menu fix

[George GOMBOS <cs981719@cs.tuiasi.ro>]

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On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, grant hallman wrote:

	All right, you convinced me!

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	OK, I've never bothered to write a shell extension before but I
believe I read somewhere that it must reside in a dll, and the dll should
be somehow registered with Windows (don't remember the details).
	Since I assume that CuteFTP uses a standard installer/uninstaller
when the program is uninstalled this dll will also be removed, regardless
of how bad, evil or cynical the CuteFTP programmers may be. (I actually
remember having used CuteFTP a very long time ago and at the moment I
thought it was actually pretty ... cute).

	If you're not going to take that for an answer, try to look at the
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Shell
Extensions\Approved key in the registry. I suspect that there's where the
little bugger is hidden, so you could go on and remove anything containing
'CuteFTP' or whatever.
	Please note, however, that as I'm not willing to try it on my
machine (I like my shell extensions as they are) I can't guarantee this
will work as expected. As I know Micro$oft, they've probably designed this
so that another 2 or 3 keys need to be removed/modified.
	It would also be 'funny' if removing this key would later confuse
the uninstaller, but it would have to be an extremely poorly written piece
of software if that were to happen.

	Suddenly I realise that this has nothing to do with
gameprogramming!

 > ============================================================
> At 11:06 PM 3/22/01 -0800, you wrote:
> >
> >	Hey, I'm too lazy to actually look up the registry key for the
>
> "Look up"? U can do that? Where?
>
> >right-click-on-the-desktop-icon but I think there's a pretty good chance
> >that once you uninstall CuteFTP the offending menu item will also go away.
>
> Uninstall is kind of a vague term when it comes to Windoze, IMHO - that
> implies some process smart enuf to untangle all the threads infiltrated
> when it was installed, which the o/s seems too, um, incomplete... to do for
> u. My only hope for an uninstal is that the "Cute" designers were polite
> and professional enuf to
>
> (a) provide an uninstall that will activate automagically when it expires
> (none is apparent on the toolbar at the moment, for whatever that's worth),
> and
>
> (b) effective enuf to find this particular bit and snip it out. I view this
> as faint hope, since it does them no good to leave me with a clean break
> when the alternative is, i send them $. So young to be cynical, i know...
>
> >If this doesn't help, keep posting, this is actually too simple to remain
> >unresolved.
>
> Besides, _I_Want_Control_Of_My_o/s_! I didn't even know u could /add/
> things to that menu. Altho it now appears that McAfee did...
>
> Too simple - yeah, like the old guy goes to the doc with a pain in his
> knee, Doc hits it once with a rubber hammer, pain goes away. Doc gives the
> gent a bill for
> $100. Guy's outraged - "$100 for 2 minits! All u did was hit my knee! I
> demand u itemize that bill!"
>
> So the Doc sits back down and taps at the keyboard, and an itemized bill
> pops out:
>  "Hitting with rubber hammer: $5.00
>         Knowing where to hit $95.00
>                      Total: $100.00
>
> regards - grant
>
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