Hi Tom, I am glad you found the Vista problem for Jim Kitchen and the GMA games. I want to add this section to my Sarah game instructions and will add your name as part author if you wish: Running the Sarah game under Vista: In Windows Vista all applications typically save their settings in the c:\Users\User Name\App Data folder, which use to be the c:\Documents And Settings\User Name\Application Data folder under Windows XP, and where Vista expects to find settings for games, and other programs. Each user should have their games saved on local folders rather than globally saved to say c:\Program Files\Sarah and the Castle of Witchcraft and Wizardry 10. However, if you have Vista setup as a single user, only one account, you should have no problems with any games since you will have Administrator rights. However, if you have multiple user accounts then you are going to encounter problems with several accessible games and not just PCS games. Any game that needs to write to the c:\Program Files\ directory to save a game, save settings, will be denied by user account control for non-administrator accounts. The solution I propose in that case is to install the games locally for a user in some place such as c:\Users\Your User name\Games where "Your User Name" is the user name of the person you are installing the games for. For example, for my Vista computer, I put my Sarah game in c:\Users\Phil\Games\PCS\ so the full path to the Sarah game folder is, c:\Users\Phil\Games\PCS\Sarah and the Castle of Witchcraft and Wizardry 10. I also have an icon pointing for the Sarah game to the SCW.EXE file. Since that is a local path for my user name I have no problem saving games or changing game settings.
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