[Lazarus] Is this a new microsoft approach?

[Gustavo Enrique Jimenez]

>  >> Is it?
>  >>
>  >
>  > I can't tell. When I have installed Lazarus on Vista, I was asked for
>  > "Allow, reject" by the UAC.
>  > My app writes some configuration files in the same directory
>  > (c:\program files....etc.). No permissions problems for my app, or for
>  > Lazarus. I have installed my app manually.
>  >
>  > Perhaps my permission settings are wrong ;-) .
>
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> No, not wrong... but the files are probably written in
>  /users/name/appdata/Local/VirtualStore/Program Files/...
>
>  Vista shows these files *as if* they are written in c:\program files\...
>  but they are not. Problem occurs when logged in as another user. You
>  *think* you modified files in c:\program files\... but Vista saves your
>  modified files somewhere in the virualStore. So if you log in as the
>  first users, changes seems to be lost. Same thing happens if you log in
>  via Terminal Server. It's some sort of compromis to keep legacy
>  applications (that do not follow vista-rules) running...

This is a nightmare ! I prefer the unix way, 50 years using /usr/bin,
/home, /etc, etc.


OT: by the way, Lazarus is great, FreePascal is great. Congratulations
to all of you, developers and contributors! Suddenly, I am a
Unix/MAC/FreeBSD/Windows/hi-tech-shoe developer, just using ONE SINGLE
compiler/RAD, developing console apps, desktop apps, web apps (ajax
apps!), daemons, etc., etc., etc.... Thanks !!

Gustavo


>
>  Same thing when storing data in the Registry. It also has a virtual
>  store where data is written that is (by Vista rules) not allowed to be
>  written in some parts of the registry (like e.g. HKLM).
>
>  Single user says: No problem, all runs fine!
>
>
>  John
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>  > Gustavo
>  >
>  > ps: excuse my english
>  >
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