> How would you install any programs if you can't write to that folder?
Installation is different. You can install programs into Program Files, but the programs aren't allowed to write their own data there after installation. I had also forgotten something else in my earlier reply, which is why legacy programs that try to write to Program Files should still work. The data they try to write there gets put into a virtual store, which is actually a real folder in the user's space. For example, IrfanView does this, and its data ends up (on my system) in Users\Chris\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\IrfanView. When IrfanView tries to read/write in Program Files, Vista will quietly use the virtual store instead. A lot of people forget (or don't know) that Program Files was not writable under XP either--if you ran as a standard user. But since nobody did, it wasn't an issue. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
