Vista, virtualization, and hairlessness

[Trevor DeVore]

On Apr 21, 2008, at 4:37 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> I have an app in which we allow customers to register it once so it  
> can be used on any client machine which has that volume mounted,  
> such as a school computer lab.
>
> On OS X and XP, simply writing the reg data into the application  
> folder works great, provided of course the person doing the  
> registration has admin privileges, which for these scenarios is  
> common.  So far so good.
>
> But on Vista, the same program using the same code thinks its  
> writing to the program directory during registration, but it turns  
> out that it isn't, and subsequent users report that the program  
> isn't registered.
>
> I understand the basic concept of Vista's virtualization, but here's  
> what I don't understand:
>
> Where do I write my reg file so all users can access it?

Can you use specialfolderpath(35) which is the shared common app data  
folder?

Regards,

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Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Learning Systems
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