Re: ANN: Vista Gotchas You Should Know About

2007-02-24 Thread Ken Ray
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 22:40:43 -0600, J. Landman Gay wrote: Some of the info I found suggested these last two were only writable at installation, and after that were read-only. Is that true? One would think the AppData folders would be the natural place to put files, but someone was

Re: ANN: Vista Gotchas You Should Know About

2007-02-24 Thread J. Landman Gay
Ken Ray wrote: Well, here's the official word from Microsoft from their page Developer Best Practices and Guidelines for Applications in a Least Privileged Environment (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480150.aspx) : Applications should be installed in the \Programs files\

Re: ANN: Vista Gotchas You Should Know About

2007-02-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
J. Landman Gay wrote: For my apps, this is the relevant piece: # Write per-user data to the user profile (%APPDATA%). # Write per-machine data to users\all users\application data\... (%ALLUSERSPROFILE%). So apparently you're right and we can use AppData. Just to be clear for us

Re: ANN: Vista Gotchas You Should Know About

2007-02-23 Thread Tariel Gogoberidze
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.

Re: ANN: Vista Gotchas You Should Know About

2007-02-23 Thread Ken Ray
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

Re: ANN: Vista Gotchas You Should Know About

2007-02-23 Thread J. Landman Gay
Ken Ray wrote: 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

ANN: Vista Gotchas You Should Know About

2007-02-22 Thread Ken Ray
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: - You install your program to the Program Files folder - You leave the User Account

Re: ANN: Vista Gotchas You Should Know About

2007-02-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
Thanks for that, Ken. One more note: Don't think you can save money getting Home Basic Edition -- it doesn't have Aero, so there's a lot of UI appearances you won't be able to check. For that an other Vista annoyances: