Hi

On Wednesday 16 November 2011 at 7:48:11 PM, in
<mid:[email protected]>, Brian wrote:


> On  answers.microsoft.com forum someone asked a
> question about "Access denied  on  editing  file  under
> c:\program files\" and the answer was that in Windows 7
> applications are not supposed to store user-writable
> files in the Program Files folder.  That's what the
> ProgramData folder is for."

Sounds like %programfiles% and %appdata% on XP.



> Someone  else  chimed in that instead of installing the
> program to the Program Files folder to install it to
> another folder then the built-in restrictions on
> writing to the Program Files folder would not apply.  

That works on XP as well but I think the usual solution is to run as 
an administrator account instead of a user account...


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