Place to stash a text file in Vista thats shared by all users?

[Chris Sheffield]

Watch out for this though. It's been my experience, and maybe it's  
just some sort of bug for now in Vista that will later be fixed, that  
even sometimes writing to C:\ProgramData will cause things to be  
redirected to the user's VirtualStore, which in some cases may be  
okay, but in other's not okay at all.

I found the Public Documents folder to be about the safest place for  
me. I realize it's maybe not the best place to store a prefs file, but  
it seems to work best as far as all users being able to access it,  
without things being redirected to the VirtualStore. The official path  
is C:\Users\Public\Public Documents.

My two cents...

Chris Sheffield


On Nov 1, 2007, at 9:19 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Eric Chatonet wrote:
>> Le 31 oct. 07 à 19:11, rgould8 at aol.com a écrit :
>>> Can anyone tell me if there's a directory somewhere in Windows   
>>> Vista that is accessible by all users of the PC??
>> specialFoderPath(35) (C:/ProgramData) seems the directory you need.
>
> Good find, Eric.  Thanks!
>
> Some months ago we had a discussion here looking for such a  
> directory, and no one could turn up one which was writable by even  
> non-admin accounts.
>
> But I was able to verify that specialFolderPath(35) can indeed be  
> written to and read from by admin and non-admin accounts.
>
> Good sleuthing!
>
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> Richard Gaskin
> Managing Editor, revJournal
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