Re: Blat and Windows 10

"Rod Carty [email protected] [blat]" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.blat
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I don't use the -hkcu switch when running the batch files that call blat 
so I think you're right, -install in an explicitly Administrator-level 
priviledge command window once is all that is needed.

On 12/03/15 9:45 AM, 'Al Franz' [email protected] [blat] wrote:
> Interesting comment about running in and Administrator Command prompt.
> I have been able to run BLAT in a non-administrator command prompt by
> adding “-hkcu” to the “ -install” command.  Is it correct if you run in
> an Administrator prompt you don’t need the “-hkcu” attribute, and
> wouldn’t need to even run -install each time BLAT is run.  Interesting
> to note there is nothing in the help file about “-hkcu”, I think Chip
> provided that tip when Windows 8 first came out.   Any thoughts.  Thanks.
>
> On Dec 1, 2015, at 19:30, Rod Carty [email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]> [blat] <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     Windows 8 did introduce some additional security restrictions, but I've
>     found the simplest fix is to make sure blat is not in a system
>     folder. I
>     put it into C:\batches, with the batches that typically call it, and
>     this requires no registry hacks nor Administrator priviledge for the
>     batches nor blat. The only issue which I've seen is occasionally I have
>     to set the -install config from an admin-level command window.
>

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Rod Carty
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