Vista: I have not actually worked day to day yet in Vista, but two things I see about it I am all in favour of.
1 - UAC - as a long time Unix user used to running as a non admin (root) user I just got used to setting up data folders and ownerships and permissions. It's a necessary "evil" that is not so hard and best to just do it and get used to how the OS wants to protect itself and you. Its always a good programming practice to be able separate programs and settings files and data files anyway, from what I have found if you have well specified folders for eg settings then you have maybe just one folder to make sure you have the approriate write permissions to. 2 - From what I have seen of the Vista folder structures they are a lot flatter and more easy to find than XP - the huge tree under "Documents and Settings" I find really obscure and seems to me an exercise in creating security by making it really hard to find where the actual important files are likely to be. In fact I got the impression that someone at Microsoft said "OK lets finally admit that something like the Unix folder structure makes more sense". Have a Users folder, with usernames under that, and under each user folder folders for pictures and documents etc - guess where that comes from. However the Windows permissions and folder structures are much more complex and arbitrary to my mind than the logical structures on Unix. I think that's one of the reasons almost no-one outside of Microsoft got comfortable with them. So far I create my own folder structures all under my own folder (which is NOT under Program Files) so I can set the permissions on these without upsetting anything else. However it would be tidier to follow the conventions - its usually easier to swim with the stream than against it! Question: I remember once coming across a Delphi unit that can return all the Windows folder settings for almost everything (temp files, program files, Windows folder, Start menu user, Start menu all users, etc etc). Can't find it! Does anyone know of a version that gives the locations for all common versions (98, 2000, XP and Vista)? That would be an excellent level of abstraction to add to any program. Anyone have or know of such a unit/utility/component? John _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
