[Spambayes] Local admin rights

Ryan Malayter rmalayter at bai.org
Thu Feb 17 01:01:47 CET 2005


[Tony Meyer]
>Do you know if it is possible to register an Outlook plug-in without 
>these keys?

The add-in itself appears to be registered with outlook in the USER
portion of the registry:
 
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Outlook\Addins\SpamBayes.Out
lookAddin

However, the SpamBayes.OutlookAddin ProgID appears to be registered in a
protected part of the registry:
  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AppID\{3556EDEE-FC91-4cf2-A0E4-7489747BAB10}
  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{3556EDEE-FC91-4cf2-A0E4-7489747BAB10}
  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SpamBayes.OutlookAddin

Instead, I would think you could put similar entries into the
corresponding parts of the user's registry hive:
  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\AppID
  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID
  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\SpamBayes.OutlookAddin

Of course, the spambayes program files and DLLs themselves would have to
go into the %USERPROFILE%\Application Data directory, which is the only
place a "standard user" can write on the machine.

Regards,
	Ryan


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