On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:52:59 -0500, Tariel Gogoberidze wrote: > > On Feb 23, 2007, at 1:12 PM, Ken Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hey everyone - I've been working with the release of Vista (Home >> Premium Edition) since its release and just discovered something you >> may or may not be aware of that you REALLY need to be aware of IF: > > Ken, thanks for this info. Any solutions so far? > I don't have Vista installed yet to look, may be you know if there is > some "designated" SpecialFolderPath accessible folder on Vista for > files / stacks that you need to write back without triggering > "VirtualStore", even if "Account Control" is turned "On" ?
Well, so far what's been suggested so far is either: CSIDL_COMMON_DOCUMENTS (specialFolderPath(46)) C:/Users/Public/Documents or CSIDL_PERSONAL (specialFolderPath(5)) C:/Users/Ken/Documents depending on whether you want it available to everyone on the machine, or just the logged-in user. This is a visible place that normal users can get to if they need to (perhaps to toss out a preference file to start the app up with defaults). If you don't want people to be able to get to it easily, but still have it be a writeable area, you can use either: CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA (specialFolderPath(35)) C:/ProgramData or CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA (specialFolderPath(28)) C:/Users/Ken/AppData/Local once again depending on whether you want it for everyone or just the logged in user. These folders are writeable, but are kept hidden, so only people "in the know" will be able to get to files in those folders. Ken _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard