First post, by Telordya
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I noticed that with the current version, 0.72, the Windows installer installs the DOSBox shortcuts only in the current user start menu. But I think it should be installed instead in the All Users start menu, to follow the principle of least privilege. With WinXP and earlier, it's was ok because most people ran with admin privileges by default. But now with Vista and Win7 which begin to adopt by default LUA (was about time!!) like Mac OS and Linux, the DOSBox installer should adapt too.
I think and hope you already considered that, but I found nothing talking about that in the forums. It's really only a small fix. Here's what should be done for the next version:
- install by default the DOSBox shortcuts in the All Users start menu
- modify the executable to use by default the dosbox.conf in the C:\Documents and Settings\[current user]\Application Data\DOSBox or C:\Documents and Settings\[current user]\My Documents\DOSBox folder
- modify the executable or add a parameter in dosbox.conf to specify the capture folder
This way, the executables folder will always be read-only with a LUA, just like in Linux. More security and better management.
