Hi Jim and all, I'm writing to let you know I discovered an issue with all of your games under Vista you might want to be advised of. It is a rather nasty bug, but there are solutions to the problem. Though, unless you plan to make changes in your applications to fix it the bug will remain a pain for Vista users. As you might be aware Vista's user account control manages what programs a user can start, where he or she can save files, who can do installs, etc... It is a huge pain in the neck for those who got use to the way XP did things, and what XP allowed you to get away with Bottom line, I've been researching the issue and apparently under Vista each user is suppose to save settings locally to his or her applications data folder, documents folder, etc rather than globally saving to a place such as c:\Program Files\Kitchensinc Which is a big no under Vista. Apparently, XP was the same, but it wasn't as pushy about it. The days of globally saving to the applications root directory are over. Anyway, according to Microsoft's security knowledge base every Vista system should have at least one "administrator account" and one "standard user account" for maximum security. Like Linux under Vista the administrator account is responsible for software installs, system wide configurations, and other system management tasks where high user rights is required. The standard account is for playing games, reading and writing email, browsing the web, and any other day to day tasks. However, do to security restrictions on the standard account your games aren't really playable as a standard user. When I try to save the voice settings, or save a game, I get the error that I can not write to the c:\Program Files\Kitchensinc folder because it is restricted. There are some solutions to the problem you can address other than rewriting your programs to operate correctly in Vista's multiuser environment. 1. Have the end user install the kitchensinc folder locally to his or her c:\Users\User Name directory. Where "User Name" is his or her user name he/she logs into Vista with, and create a custom icon pointing to winkit.exe. 2. The user can elect to log into Vista with the administrator account and play games as administrator. That will work, but is less secure. 3. Under the kitchensinc directory the end user can arrow to each of the *.exe files, press alt+enter to enter the properties, control+tab, and set the *.exe files to elevate automatically to administrator. What will happen every standard user will be prompted to enter the administrator password before launching the games. A bit of a pain, but will work as a work around. Hth.
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