Re: Installation on Windows adds Autorun registry key calling " convert.exe $*"

Hi

Am 25.03.2010 09:51, schrieb Wolfgang Hugemann:
>> We installed ImageMagick 6.6.0 32-bit Q8 on a Windows 2003 Server
>> and observed that it added the following registry key:
>>
>> [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications] "AutoRun"="C:\\Program Files
>> (x86)\\ImageMagick-6.6.0-Q8\\convert.exe $*"
>
> I cannot see any use in this. I have just deleted this entry, started
> Windows anew and convert -version still calls IM's version of
> convert.exe, not the system tool. As pointed out in
> http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/windows/#convert_issue , the
> re-ordering of the path environment variable solved this problem,
> with no need for a registry key.

Can this be verified, and if found to be true, remove the 
Autorun-registry key from the installer script? In any case 
documentation about this installer behavior should be provided.

Cheers
Nicola