Non-Protected Folders in Vista

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Saucer Man

I am trying to find some locations in Vista that would be good for program
installs where the program writes data in it's own folder. I know the
c:\users folder is protected. How about c:\users\all users? Can an install
work in this location?
 
Ok, but I have a program which is a per-machine program and some data is
written in its subfolders when the program is running. This program cannot
be installed in the users appdata folder. It doesn't work in Program Files.
 
Hi,

Vista uses file virtualization for programs that need to write to their own
folder, as writing to C:\Program Files is not an allowed function.
Generally, this is %userprofile%\appdata\local\virtualstore. Your
application will need to comply with the programming specifics from the SDK
to accomplish this, and is beyond the scope of this group, and should be
addressed in a group that supports the language the program is being written
in.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
 

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