Ken Ray wrote:
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:52:59 -0500, Tariel Gogoberidze wrote:
On Feb 23, 2007, at 1:12 PM, Ken Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hey everyone - I've been working with the release of Vista (Home
Premium Edition) since its release and just discovered something you
may or may not be aware of that you REALLY need to be aware of IF:
Ken, thanks for this info. Any solutions so far?
I don't have Vista installed yet to look, may be you know if there is
some "designated" SpecialFolderPath accessible folder on Vista for
files / stacks that you need to write back without triggering
"VirtualStore", even if "Account Control" is turned "On" ?
Well, so far what's been suggested so far is either:
CSIDL_COMMON_DOCUMENTS (specialFolderPath(46))
C:/Users/Public/Documents
or
CSIDL_PERSONAL (specialFolderPath(5))
C:/Users/Ken/Documents
depending on whether you want it available to everyone on the machine,
or just the logged-in user. This is a visible place that normal users
can get to if they need to (perhaps to toss out a preference file to
start the app up with defaults). If you don't want people to be able to
get to it easily, but still have it be a writeable area, you can use
either:
CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA (specialFolderPath(35))
C:/ProgramData
or
CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA (specialFolderPath(28))
C:/Users/Ken/AppData/Local
once again depending on whether you want it for everyone or just the
logged in user. These folders are writeable, but are kept hidden, so
only people "in the know" will be able to get to files in those folders.
Some of the info I found suggested these last two were only writable at
installation, and after that were read-only. Is that true? One would
think the AppData folders would be the natural place to put files, but
someone was commenting they had to use Documents because AppData
couldn't be written to.
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Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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