Program Installation folders

[Peter Haworth]

Thanks Tom, all good points.  I'm about to put out a new release of my
application that installs using a Windows Installer program which gives
users the option of where to install the program.  Hopefully that will give
users the flexibility they want.

Pete
lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>



On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:31 AM, tbodine <lvhdgc7 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> My problems with "Program Files" are:
> 1) It's read-only on typical post-XP PCs. So you can't save any data back
> to
> that folder, if that matters to you. You end up with more data scattered
> around the machine.
> 2) It's not obvious to average users, especially since MS "hides" the
> contents of "Program Files" by default.
>
> We have customers who often want to move our program and their work to a
> Flash drive for mobile use. That makes "Program Files" a headache, so we
> default install to "My Documents", where the user always has read/write
> permissions and the app's folder is easily found if they need to go mobile
> with it.
>
> I'm sure the MS mothership frowns on this approach, but it works for
> customers and it works for us every since the release of Vista.
>
> Just some things to consider...
>
> -- Tom Bodine
>
>
>
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