Keith Teal added the comment:

Hi Terry,

I did not just make that stuff up on my last post, that is actually the 
standard for Windows applications. Yes, many Linux ports get it wrong but is 
that any reason to ever perpetuate a bad practice?

To see the standards you can download the Windows SDK but to make things easier 
for you here is a link that talks about this: 
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/patricka/archive/2010/03/18/where-should-i-store-my-data-and-configuration-files-if-i-target-multiple-os-versions.aspx

By using non-standard conventions the application is just asking for trouble 
like what is being manifested with this issue. Users will be able to write to 
their %APPDATA% area, no administrator would lock that down as it would cause 
too many applications to fail (Kiosk type installations not included).

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