Vista, virtualization, and hairlessness

[Mark Talluto]

On Apr 21, 2008, at 1:43 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote:

> 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?


I have been using specialfolderpath(26) for both XP and Vista.  This  
has been working out well.


Mark Talluto
http://www.canelasoftware.com