AW: still standard folder under Vista

[Ken Ray]

On Sun, 9 Sep 2007 17:56:52 +0200, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote:

> Hello Ken,
> your Sunday service for roaming is quite enlightening!

:-)

> I've checked a couple of machine, and they all have "AppData" as well as
> "Application Data". The important thing for me is, that I was looking for a
> Folder in the users path, which is visible for the user with standard
> settings (the "AppData" is invisible in standard). On the other hand the
> "Users/documents" folder, which is visible is to "far high up in the folder
> hierachy" and too present for the user. That’s why I would have loved to use
> the "Application Data", which is standard visible in the user folder. Hmmm

Is is possible that these were XP machines that were upgraded to Vista? 
I haven't done that (my experience has only been with PCs with Vista 
pre-installed), but it wouldn't surprise me if for backwards 
compatibility Vista might have left the old folder around...

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/