I've agreed with much of what you've said, including that Vista isn't perfect. I've also tried to help with yours and everyones understanding of how Vista works. If it isn't working for you, move back.
>I just had another round of Vista protecting me from anything useful.
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>I made a quick program straight from the VFP9 command prompt, which puts the program in c:\program files\microsoft visual foxpro 9 folder.
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>Nothing new there.
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>Then I went to copy the file to another folder using explorer.
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>Guess what - not there.
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>VFP still shows it (modi comm ? and up pops c:\program files\microsoft visual foxpro 9 folder view with my program in it which I can open).
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>Not there if I go there with a command prompt. Not there with Explorer. Not there if I look at my C drive from a remote machine.
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>Virtualized somewhere. The only way I can get to the program from other than the VFP9 developer environment is to open it in VFP9 and save it to a different folder.
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>Pi$$ on Vista. My laptop is finally getting upgraded to XP next weekend.
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>No Craig. Don't bother defending it.
Craig Berntson
MCSD, Microsoft .Net MVP, Grape City Community Influencer