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Visual FoxPro
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00279917
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>>I've heard that Windows 2000 will restrict .DLL setup in the System Directory. Will this have any effect on Setting up VFP 6 apps on a client machine via the Distribution Wizard (which installs the runtime in the System Directory)? Will we need a patch to the Distribution Wizard?
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>Probably to the same extent that NT does now (on a properly administered NT system, only privileged users are allowed to write into the NT System directories...
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>If you build a Distribution using Setup Wizard now, installing on an NT system checks to see if you have admin privileges, and bails if you don't.

This is causing a big headache here, as LAN wants to tighten security, but at the same time, they don't have the staff to go around to every machine and do every install. And while they will end up giving me more rights than I already have, apparently, I'll probably have to personally login at every machine to do installs (Yuck) Still in the debate stage, anyway, as the move has been postponed until final Win2K comes out with at least one SP...
The Anonymous Bureaucrat,
and frankly, quite content not to be
a member of either major US political party.
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