Money 2003 and virtual storage

[Guest]

I use MM 2003 business deluxe because the newer ones have features I don't
want and cant turn off. I bought MM 2005 and shelved it. Vista stores my MM
files in users/../appdata/local/virtualstor/programfiles/microsoft money/
I read that will be going away and I will need an upgrade or fix for money
03 to work under Vista. What is the story on that? thanks
Rich

 

[mikeyhsd]

use the options to relocate the data store.



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I use MM 2003 business deluxe because the newer ones have features I don't
want and cant turn off. I bought MM 2005 and shelved it. Vista stores my MM
files in users/../appdata/local/virtualstor/programfiles/microsoft money/
I read that will be going away and I will need an upgrade or fix for money
03 to work under Vista. What is the story on that? thanks
Rich

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Rich

Virtualization will not be going away for a very long time, there are just
too many legacy programs that depend on it.

Virtualization is available because legacy applications are programmed to
store data and configuration files in the
%systemroot%\Program Files folder and this folder in Vista is restricted to
installing programs.

If there is an option in MM 2003 to change where you store the data files,
make sure that you create the folders for these files within the
%systemroot%\Users\yourname folder tree for these files.

 

[Guest]

Seems MM2003 has no provisions for changing the data location. Only the
backup. It says my operational file is in c:\program Files\Microsoft Money
even though that folder is empty. The data files are really in
c:\users\..\..\virtualStore\microsoft money. Must be Vista aliasing the
folder over because mm finds the file ok. It is working fine so I wont mess
with it anymore. I was just wondering about things breaking later.
Thanks all for your trouble.