I think these portions of this thread should be renamed as to why Legacy
continues to need to be installed into a "non-standard" location. I'm just
trying to bring the discussions around to be Legacy specific instead of merely
discussion OS restrictions. Dennis' web-site link about "file and registry
virtualizations" is interesting (well, maybe not to many Legacy users but to
some of us propeller-heads) as well are the comments posted on that web site.
But what I find most interesting of all are these things:
1. The last lines of the opening paragraph says: "This technology is
intended to make deployments of Vista less dependent on waiting for vendors to
release new versions of their software that work with LUA. It isn’t designed to
be used forever: in fact, Microsoft hopes to deprecate the virtualization
feature in the next version of Windows after Windows Vista. The thought is that
by that time, vendors and customers should have applications that work
correctly in the low rights environment.
2. That web page was posted Dec 19 2005.
3. The fictitious program example on the web page was called
"PoorlyBehavedApp".
So Microsoft has given fair warning to vendors to release new versions. It is
now well over 4 years later and Legacy v7 is still using the same default
install folder as Legacy v2.
OK, before anyone says/thinks that I am bad-mouthing the Legacy program and I
should go elsewhere, these are intended to be constructive comments and
criticism. I still think Legacy is the best consumer genealogy program
available. I've always told the support personnel that I'll be Legacy's biggest
supporter and probably the biggest critic at the same time. But as Sherry
stated a few days ago, the programmers are usually tight-lipped about what
features they are working are. I suppose that is to avoid any "vaporware" or to
avoid being tied to any specific release date too far in advance. I guess we'll
all just have to wait and see what is behind door #2, aka Legacy v8.
Brian in CA
-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis M. Kowallek [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 10:26 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] multiple errors
On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 10:11:48 -0800, "Brian L. Lightfoot"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>That's an interesting question/response. Since Boswell is running Win7 64-bit,
>would one expect Legacy to *finally* start writing application data files to
>C:\users\. It would be nice but I'm betting that Legacy v7 has no idea what OS
>is controlling it and all data is written into their own installation folder,
>data such as the .USR files.
For anyone who wonders what we are talking about, here is a decent
explanation of file and registry virtualization under Vista (and I
presume Win7).
http://windowsconnected.com/blogs/jerry/archive/2005/12/19/86.aspx
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Dennis Kowallek (LTools)
http://zippersoftware.com/ltools
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