Most likely a UAC issue. Read "Developing VFP Applications for Windows 7" at http://www.doughennig.com/papers/default.html

>Perhaps someone can help me with this.
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>Since Windows XP, my app writes the data folder paths to the Windows Registry - in particular to:
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>Hkey_Local_Machine/Software/MyCompanyName/MyAppName/Paths (and then the paths are within the Paths folder section).
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>However, I have just noticed that Windows 7 and Windows 8 do not do this, and automatically drop it within following if 64bit Windows:
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>Hkey_Current_User/Software/Classes/VirtualStore/Machine/Software/Wow6432Node/MyCompanyName/MyAppName/Paths
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>or if 32 bit Windows 7/8
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>Hkey_Current_User/Software/Classes/VirtualStore/Machine/Software/MyCompanyName/MyAppName/Paths
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>Does anyone know why Windows 7/8 would over-ride my setting to use the Hkey_Local_Machine location?
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>Although this has not been an issue, it has just come up as an issue within the last couple days. After a recent Windows 8 update on their computer, two user's have reported that after the Windows 8 update, the file paths to one of the folders no longer exist. I can correct this by deleting this Registry setting and can change my code to catch this in the future.
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>Any idea's on what is going on here? Also, shouldn't the file paths be in the Hkey_Local_Machine setting? Why would Windows 7/8 force this change?
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>Any thoughts are appreciated before I make any code changes.