Trouble Opening Armagetron!

[compguygene]

I completely understand your viewpoint on that. the biggest reason I use this program is because I have found that by using it, I have cleaned things off my system that Ccleaner did not catch.

[delinquent]

orly? Hmm. I might have a look, I thought CC was pretty good

[Z-Man]

Which keys are left over? Thing is, different versions use different keys, especially those you can have installed concurrently (0.4 vs 0.2..

[delinquent]

0.4 (I think, can't tell because there's no version specific key, it just seems like a generic one)

hkey_local_machine\software\classes\aarec
name is default, SZ classification? data just displays "armagetronad.recording"

Slightly confusing seeing as apparently I don't have access to it... I tried removing it entirely and it gives me an "access to the registry key is denied" message...
I read about something like this with .NET yonks ago. It was something to do with the com interop, when building assemblies that used it, but as far as I am aware, this was a problem in hkey_classes_root and it was a component categories thing.

If I'm right, the solution was to right click and select "inherit permissions from parent object", and in doing so ensure that the four main functions were then available.

I also happen to remember that this was a windows NT 4 issue, and not the new builds. Maybe it does have something to do with it though?

[Z-Man]

Ah, I could have sworn I added that key to the installer, but it's not in the current one. It's responsible for making double clicks on .aarec files work. Digging back a bit, I added it sometime on 0.2.8, but forgot that merges for the nsis installer script are broken. So 0.4 doesn't know about the key and can't remove it. 0.2.8 doesn't remove it on uninstall, either, of course, but at least 0.4 has a convenient excuse

And yeah, registry key removals in that section require admin rights. The uninstaller would have them.

[delinquent]

Ah. To be on the safe side I would double check that too, I can't remember if it was aarec or another entity, but I got a permission denied error on uninstall. Running the uninstaller as an admin manually though, seems to do the trick...