Michael, Sounds like their admin has "group policy" running which is completely locked down using Group Policy Edit.
That is of course, assuming they are linked onto a domain controller somewhere which ships out the Policy when logging onto the domain. We do this on our shop floor machines and you can'e even click on the start button! Dave Crozier -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MB Software Solutions Sent: 22 January 2008 21:02 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Vista compatibility with VFP7 and earlier versions of VFP Ted Roche wrote: > I'd also like to have some guidance on what the current best practice is. > We're supporting a 20-year-old FoxPro program that's grown through > FoxBase and Fox 2.x and VFP and is both stable and mature. We're using > the typical "loader" program to determine if there are updates by > looking on the network and download the update and chaining to that > one. We're running in /Program Files, but that's becoming a hostile > environment; our most secure clients have had to specially-configure > our directory to allow user read-write. > > What's the most efficient (cheap in time and cost) means of > configuring this app to work with the new OS restrictions? > > > I've got a client in TX whose PCs are seemingly locked down and their FabMate won't run. I've not encountered any other PCs like this. It's Win XP iirc. Not sure if home/pro. When we logged in as the Administrator, it installed and worked fine; but when we then re-logged in as the regular user, it failed miserably. Ideas from the gallery? I told their outsourcing company (they have someone come in to do their IT) that FabMate reads/writes to the registry, the app folder (c:\Program Files\MB Software Solutions\FabMate Standard) and inserts an auditing record into a MySQL database on the web, hoping that knowing this, he'll be able to open whatever is blocked/locked down. -- Michael J. Babcock, MCP MB Software Solutions, LLC http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com http://fabmate.com "Work smarter, not harder, with MBSS custom software solutions!" [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
