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Bug: Administrator mode and Windows 10
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From
06/10/2015 15:56:30
Walter Meester
HoogkarspelNetherlands
 
 
To
06/10/2015 13:32:00
Lutz Scheffler
Lutz Scheffler Software Ingenieurbüro
Dresden, Germany
General information
Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Troubleshooting
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP2
OS:
Windows 10
Network:
Windows 2008 Server
Database:
MS SQL Server
Application:
Web
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01625521
Message ID:
01625576
Views:
53
Lutz,

I'm not sure how many enterprises you visit in your profession, but mapped drives are used a lot in the corporate world. Every client (clinics, hospitals and universities) do use mapped drives.

So, I do not recognize your assertion that mapped drives are outdated technology.

Walter,


>>Excuse me, but normally I discuss how goes the car,
>>not the driver as a guide.
>
>Car? Thing with four wheels and one steer to transport from A to B?
>I don't pick up the picture. Puzzled.
>
>Never mind. If you still stuck with mapped drives 20 years or so after M$ has introduced UNC paths (WIN95 for all I remember) you seem to be happy with it.
>Thats o.k. I'm fine with it
>I found it depricated from the day UNC was available in the WallHole OS, even while VFP needed several years to close that gap.
>
>I only point out that there is a cheap way around your problem for decades.
>Read the WIN10 behaviour as a hint to skip mapped drives finaly. Somebody near Redmond WA found it superfluous.
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