Out of curiosity, do we know if Windows 7 works the same way. I don't have Windows 7 on any machine or I would try it. I still like the solution I took with my laptop, which was to 'upgrade' it from Vista to XP :).
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Eli Barzilay <e...@barzilay.org> wrote: > On May 4, Doug Williams wrote: > > I got bitten by that back in 2008 - I have a blog entry ( > > http://drschemer.blogspot.com/2008/07/plt-scheme-on-vista.html) > > about my problems from back then. And, I think this ( > > http://bugs.plt-scheme.org/query/?cmd=view&pr=9554) is the bug > > report with an audit trail of e-mails. > > To summarize the problem: lots of windows applications want to write > stuff in their directory, and this was almost always possible. With > the move to vista, they're trying to make things saner by protecting > these directories (actually, the default user is not as powerful as it > was on xp) -- and the result is that applications that expect to be > able to write stuff this way get broken. The UAC solution is to > "divert" such writes to a user-local directory, so that when the > program runs on behalf of that user it has the illusion that it can > write there, only really it gets stored in the user directory, > unaffecting other users or the system directory. As expected, this > works for many cases, and when it doesn't, the resulting confusion and > mess is amazingly effective. (Practically all of the problems that > this leads to start with mysterious voodoo bug reports, which sound > utterly confused and impossible to recreate.) > > > > I'm not sure if the installer was ever updated to know about the shadow > > copy. Eli and Matthew (and probably others) identified the problem. > > The installer (or uninstaller) cannot be fixed to deal with it -- as > usual, the immediate way to see this is to consider a system with > multiple users: if I uninstall, you won't like it if it makes the > system delete your files. > > IIRC, there was some bit to set somewhere declaring that the > application is well behaved, and just disable the UAC "feature", and > I'm not sure if there were other problems in turning it on. > > -- > ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: > http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! >
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