🚀 go-pugleaf

codeman@pobox.com (Kerry Sanders) wrote:

> 
> On Sat, 16 Mar 1996 15:12:31 GMT, snapa@cadrus.fr (Ola Arne SNAPA) wrote:
> 
> ->>Why edit the registry for this? All you have to do is right click on an
> empty spot on the task bar,
> ->>choose properties and check "Auto hide".
> ->
> ->"All you have to do ...", indeed !  What if it were YOU they'd picked 
> ->to do this - I agree - simple operation? On 900 machines, remember?! 
> ->How many could you do in a day? Wouldn't you look for an 
> ->easier way to do it? A standard setup for every machine?
> 
> 
> So... what are you going to do?  Are you going to create a program that will
> do it for you?  One where you have to sit down at the computer, insert the
> floppy disk, copy the program to the hard drive, run it, and hope that it
> doesn't trash your registry?  During all this procedure, you could have right
> clicked on the taskbar, chose properties, and then selected Auto-Hide.
> 
> How else are you going to do it?

Well.. if it was simply a registry entry, the registry can be edited
remotely... soooooooooo, he wouldn't even need to leave his desk...
let alone perform a repetetive task on 900 machines.



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