Windows downgrade to 2.2.9 failure to start

[Fred Bone]

On 13 January 2010 at 19:49, Derek Atkins said:

> Jason Dunham <jwdunham at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > After the uninstalls, there are no Gnucash folders in the C:\Program
> > Files or the C:\Program Files (x86) folders.
> 
> But there is probably still gnucash/gnome/gconf data in $HOME
> 
> > I searched the registry, but there are no gnucash keys in there.  This
> > makes sense, because linux doesn't have a registry, so it wouldn't make
> > sense to use it when porting the software over.
> 
> Bzzt.  There ARE registry keys used on Windows.

Are you quite sure about that?

If I search my registry for the string "gnucash", I get:
1. A HKCR entry for ".gnucash" pointing to "GnuCash Financial Data", and 
a matching one for "GnuCash Financial Data". These are filetype 
associations so Windows knows what to do if I double-click on a file 
whose name ends in ".gnucash".

2. A HKCU entry under the "most recently used files" list, referring to a 
file in my TEMP directory that isn't there any more (no idea what it was, 
the name doesn't mean much)

3. A HKCU entry under Explorer's "FileExts" key, for ".gnucash", and 
another for ".gnucash-xea", probably because I did an "open with" on the 
file mentioned above (and Explorer wants to remember this).

4. A HKCU entry under Explorer's "Start Menu" key, which is where it 
remembers what order the entries on the Start menu are to show up in.

... and the HKLM and HKU entries corresponding to the above. With the 
possible exception of (1), these are all things that Windows would have 
put there in response to things I did, and not data stored by Gnucash 
itself; and none of these would be any use to Gnucash, so I can't believe 
they would affect its behaviour.

Of course, there are features I don't use, but IMHO it would be insane 
for Gnucash to put stuff in the Windows registry when it has a perfectly 
good alternative place (gconf) to put it instead.