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[Python-Dev] Python environment registration in the Windows Registry

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Wed Feb 3 14:33:01 EST 2016 
On 3 February 2016 at 19:20, Alexander Walters <tritium-list at sdamon.com> wrote:
> Uh.... its C:\Anaconda[2]\ for anyone running the installer with the
> privileges to edit the registry... (It wont ask to elevate unless you
> install for all users, and that's where all users will install).  So on that
> point alone, this saves nothing substantive really.

Per-user installs go into HKCU, which doesn't require elevation, so
the proposal *does* help for per-user installs. And does the all-users
install really offer no option for users to choose their own install
location? Not even to switch to another drive (if, for example, C: is
protected)?

Paul
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