Timeline for How do I answer a protected question?
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| Mar 9, 2015 at 20:39 | comment | added | HopelessN00b Mod | @iopq I'm not especially inclined to do so, as I have other things that need my intention, but given the whole PowerShell <=> .NET thing, I bet it would be fairly easy to pull off that code snippet inside a PowerShell script. | |
| Mar 9, 2015 at 20:15 | comment | added | MDMoore313 | I agree, it's the same answer at its core @iopq, just adding more information, which is what comments are for, and it's at the OPs (the one who wrote the answer) discretion if they want to edit their answer to include the information. If, for example, there is another way to answer the OPs problem, for example by using powershell to run some hidden cmdlet, then that would warrant a separate answer. For reference, answers that do nothing more than restate an existing answer (which usually is just an attempt to gain rep) are frowned upon and usually have the opposite of the intended effect. | |
| Mar 9, 2015 at 19:37 | comment | added | iopq | That's not useful, you have to write a program to do it. I don't even have a compiler on this box. The other workaround works from the UI, you don't have to write code. That's a completely different use case. | |
| Mar 9, 2015 at 18:47 | comment | added | HopelessN00b Mod |
@iopq The KB article linked in the accepted answer does, in fact, contain a method to send a WM_SETTINGCHANGE broadcast message, which is the same thing that the process outlined in the comment does, just in a slightly different way. It seems to me like it should be a comment on that answer, rather than a new answer, and it's also a lot more likely to be seen as a comment on the accepted answer, that it would be as an answer of its own, below all the other ones.
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| Mar 9, 2015 at 18:37 | comment | added | iopq | The comment that says "Just installed Scala on my PC but the PATH did not update; presumably the MSI did not broadcast the WM_SETTINGCHANGE message. I added a dummy SYSTEM variable i.e. CHANGE_TO_UPDATE=z, that I update to trigger the WM_SETTINGCHANGE message - problem solved" is the one that solved my issue. I've upvoted the comment but it's not even close to the #1 comment. | |
| Mar 9, 2015 at 18:35 | comment | added | HopelessN00b Mod | @iopq Which comment? Adding an answer, which will be ignored for its votes count, and that is already there as a comment isn't a great solution to that situation, either. | |
| Mar 9, 2015 at 18:32 | comment | added | iopq | Yes, the actual answer is buried in the comments, and is not the "accepted" answer. | |
| Mar 9, 2015 at 18:31 | vote | accept | iopq | ||
| Mar 9, 2015 at 14:43 | history | answered | HopelessN00bMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |