Hi Lee, Thanks for the explanation of the dual "Program Files" folders-- sounds like a further bit of Vista insanity. I've been using PCs since '83, and well remember when each new advance in DOS was hailed as "the future of computing"-- while there are those who passionately disagree, I truly consider Vista to be the single most godawful OS Microsoft has ever produced. Unfortunately, with my two newest laptops I was given no choice.
We can only hope that they're hard at work on a decent successor, and will quickly put Vista out of our misery, as they did with their last major OS embarrassment, "Windows ME". Thanks again for the explanation, Shoshanna Gold Beach - South Coast of Oregon http://www.pbase.com/shoshanna http://mindworksunlimited.com/shoshannaspeak/ . Lee Menningen wrote: > > This is because (at least, this is my understanding) one of the XP > poor-programming practices that Microsoft considers to be a security risk > is an XP application violating the documented use of Program Files. When > Vista came along this rule needed to be tightened up a bit. Because > Microsoft management insisted upon a certain amount of > backward-compatibility with old applications, the solution for Vista > was to > create a pseudo-Program Files directory under each user account which is > used to fool incorrectly-written programs. An incorrectly written XP > program > will think it is using Program Files, but the "real" Program Files > directory > is protected and not accessible to applications; the OS gives them this > special fake Program Files. In the future this fake Program Files may be > eliminated. > > Just by way of explanation. > > Lee > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
