---Eric Iverson wrote: > Have you run with J installed in Vista "Program Files" and > done either JAL updates or your own maintenance? My > experience has been bad and hence the use of the word discouraged.
I have run J installed in Vista "Program Files". I didn't have any problems running J, doing JAL updates or editing J system files. All users (administrator or standard) were able to run JAL and install addons. The only thing I found that needs a heads up or warning is that unless the J session is invoked with elevated permissions (that goes for both administrators or standard users) (shift right click 'Run as administrator') any addons will actually be installed to "c:\users\<user>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\j602\addons". Same goes if a user opens say "c:\program files\j602\system\extras\utils\pacman.ijs" in J, edits it to work with spaces in the path and then saves the changes. Unless J has been run with elevated permissions, the file will actually be written to the user's VirtualStore. In my experience so far this behaviour transparent to the user as any call to a file under "c:\program files\" is supplied with the same file from "c:\users\<user>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\" if it exists. >From admittedly limited experience with the scenario so far, as long as the administrator of the machine is aware of this Vista behaviour, then it actually has some benefits. For example it prevents one user from stuffing up everyone else's J while still giving users the power to fiddle/experiment. If an administrator wants to make an addon or edit available to all users on the machine they can run JAL, then move the desired files from their VirtualStore to 'c:\program files\' using Windows Explorer. Of course it would be even simpler if JAL could prompt the user to elevate permissions so an Administrator could install addons directly to 'c:\program files' I would suggest that this is something to warn users about rather than discourage them from. Caveat: My ramblings above are entirely from my own limited experience with Vista. I haven't studied the documentation or researched this, so I may be missing some (important) intricacies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
