Hi Doug,

>>>Anyway, I'm about to change my app's install folder to a new root, called "Programs", and get on with life, knowing that my app runs solid again as it did on XP, if it's installed outside of Program Files.
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>>Did you do this and do you have some experience you want to share?
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>>Maybe this is a viable shortcut to Vista-enable all legacy apps? Does anybody want to strongly advice against it?
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>Yes, I will. Doing so opens a huge security hole on your users' systems. The whole reason for making your program folder read-only is to prevent malware from hijacking your EXE or DLLs and doing bad things to their systems as a result.
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>The correct thing to do is change the location of your application's read-write files to one of the folders the user has read-write access to.

If only "the correct thing to to" could also be plainforward and easy... ;-)

As I understand you recommend C:\Users\Public as the place to store shared data. How can installer apps find this path so that the data files can be placed there on installation?

Vidar