Program Files vs. drive root

PF pros
everything in there is protected from users other than admin
PF cons
everything in there is protected from users other than admin which
In Vista/7/8 the administrator account is disabled but you can run
things as admin if your user has admin privileges.
mostly causes problems with configuring and seeing any changes in htdocs
(because they really go to the virtual store)
pid file and logs cannot be written in some cases.

Why not go the "IIS" route and use a c:\wwwroot or the like for non program-file stuff (logs, cgi-bin, docs, htdocs, conf)?

  Issac

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