Re: Access denied fro GetShortPathName in Windows Vista

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Hi tuma,

Thanks. It works. But I am very curious to know why the “Access
Denied” error when I hard code the path.

Compare your hard coded path and the path returned from
CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA. They are not identical, right?
Vista uses hard links to "support" the old (pre-Vista) directory
names in a limited way. Those hard links have a different
default security compared with what you get through the
above CSIDL. That might bight you.

In short: never use hard coded paths as different Windows
versions and languages will have slightly varying paths.

--
SvenC

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