On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 22:40:43 -0600, J. Landman Gay wrote:
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
Ken Ray wrote:
Well, here's the official word from Microsoft from their page
Developer Best Practices and Guidelines for Applications in a Least
Privileged Environment
(http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480150.aspx) :
Applications should be installed in the \Programs files\
J. Landman Gay wrote:
For my apps, this is the relevant piece:
# Write per-user data to the user profile (%APPDATA%).
# Write per-machine data to users\all users\application data\...
(%ALLUSERSPROFILE%).
So apparently you're right and we can use AppData.
Just to be clear for us
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.
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
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
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:
- You install your program to the Program Files folder
- You leave the User Account
Thanks for that, Ken.
One more note: Don't think you can save money getting Home Basic
Edition -- it doesn't have Aero, so there's a lot of UI appearances you
won't be able to check.
For that an other Vista annoyances: