While I don't have the explicit answer, Fwiw: READ
http://blogs.msdn.com/audiofool/archive/2007/03/20/categories-of-legacy- applications.aspx Has the program been given sufficient system rights to fuction correctly? regards, aj "I would suggest that Vista is designed as a goose-stepper in many ways...you know the the type...sees that you've come to work a few minutes late and, even though you routinely (and on your own merit) give away your lunch hour or some evening hours to the corporation (for which you will receive little more in the way of compensation than the label of gullible pattsy), writes you up for an infraction or otherwise tries to use it to cooerce you into extra work or a more personally subservient manner...In the same way, this goose stepper will slap you down if you get out of line...that is, unless you're prepared." -anon >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gerhard Fiedler >Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 1:56 PM >To: Protel EDA Discussion List >Subject: Re: [PEDA] Anyone using P99SE in Win Vista? > >On 2007-09-17 11:27:42, Robert Gillatt wrote: > >> I don't know Vista but, if it uses a different organisation than >> either >> Win98 or XP, would it be possible to recreate the path for >the config >> files? >> >> Is a read-only lock coming into play? P99SE drops the config files >> into either disk root or Windows root, I can't remember which. If >> Vista is even more paranoid than XP about system files it might >> somehow have managed to lock Protel's configs. > >I haven't had the dubious pleasure to play with Vista myself, >but I've heard that it (semi-)automatically places files that >applications write to and that previously were located in the >application directory into a directory under the Application >Data directory in the user's home directory (C:\Documents and >Settings\<user>\Application Data\<application name>). The same >may be true for files that the application wants to place in >the Windows directory (I think that's where a few P99SE >configuration files are located). This mechanism seems to work >rather transparently in general, but may not always. > >That directory is hidden by default, so you may have to set >Explorer to show hidden files and directories when playing with that. > >Gerhard > > >____________________________________________________________ >You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum > >To Post messages: >mailto:[email protected] > >Unsubscribe and Other Options: >http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com > >Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): >http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): >http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > ____________________________________________________________ You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum To Post messages: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe and Other Options: http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
