Hi, Calvin.

>Why does Vista suck? Well, I suppose that I have done a good bit of programming as if I was the one in charge. I tell the program to create a file and it creates a file. I tell the program to delete a file and it deletes a file and so forth. Vista has told me that I am not in charge. M$ is in charge and I am tolerated.
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>The reason that I posted VISTA SUCKS today was a failure of the 'If File(somefilename) etc' when the file plainly exists. It is on another drive/machine but for some reason Vista will not let me see it. This line of code is in an update exe. The same code in the production exe works. This and any number of like annoyances has caused me to reach the limit of my patience ( at least for this afternoon).

I know it can be frustrating. I won't say it sucks, but I still don't see it shine too much either.

As for your problem, take in consideration that all users are non-admin in Vista by default, which seems a bit extreme, but it surely help make it a safer environment for most people. Something you can do to solve some problems on your machine is to change your user rights and make yourself admin with full privileges.

Hope this helps,