[Lazarus] Is this a new microsoft approach?
Gustavo Enrique Jimenez
gejimenez at gmail.com
Fri Aug 15 05:00:05 CEST 2008
> >> 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 ;-) .
>
>
>
> 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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