 Vista and Virtual Addressing, Any easy way of dealing with this crap? |
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 Jun 21 2010, 04:30 PM
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Some of my older apps NEED to be installed in C:\Program Files\foo in order to work properly. Changes are saved in subdirectories under that.
Vista doesn't play nicely. It writes those changes in virtual locations, so they only appear if you click on the Compatibility Files tab. Then I have to move them manually so I can answer the question about administrative priviliges properly. Any easy way around this? It's really clunky... Thanks! (Incidentally, I know the PROPER workaround is Linux or similar, but I'm kind of constrained to Vista at the moment...) -------------------- My genius has an O, but it's silent and invisible, like radon gas, the International Zionist Conspiracy and Bronson Pinchot.
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Jun 28 2010, 09:28 PM
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 the omni-mouse Group: Members Posts: 7,572 Joined: 8-March 01 From: Portland, OR Member No.: 28 |
I'm not sure I follow, but are you running the applications in compatibility modes with administrative privileges?
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Jun 29 2010, 08:03 AM
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 Wiskey Tango Foxtrot Group: Members Posts: 6,355 Joined: 3-May 02 From: Way out there Member No.: 1,419 |
Virtual Machine running XP?
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Jun 29 2010, 07:47 PM
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 The Anti-Xyst  Group: Root Admin Posts: 4,484 Joined: 6-March 01 From: Lipetsk Member No.: 1 |
Yeah I'm not sure I follow either. If it's hard coded to write into foo, then what's the problem? Why wouldn't it?
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Jun 30 2010, 03:54 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 6,559 Joined: 17-June 03 Member No.: 3,740 |
Yeah, John, that was all I could think of.
PK, IH, correction. I'm running Windows 7, not Vista. It might have worked right under Vista, I'm not sure. At least I never encountered it. Yes, I have to run the software in Compatibility Mode with admin privileges. Problem is that when I save, W7 insists on monitoring anything in c:\Program Files, admin privileges notwithstanding. But it does not bring up the pop-up asking for permission, it just writes it somewhere else. What I have to do then is click on Compatibility Files tab, Ctrl-A (All files), Ctrl-X, click BACK to get out of compatibility mode, Ctrl-V. It asks for permission to do so at that point. But so far that's all I can figure out for a workaround. -------------------- My genius has an O, but it's silent and invisible, like radon gas, the International Zionist Conspiracy and Bronson Pinchot.
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