Re: Strange problem with PDW

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Thanks a lot Ralph and Mike. I've read the article and it seems to suggest
make alterations to the proposed recipient's machine. I specifically do not
want that. I want the app to run on any Vista machine (as well as XP home
machines) without me or the recipient having to take any other action than
the normal invocation of setup.exe from the D drive CD.

Is there some simple way of fixing the code of my app to provide for this
(random) access of the data files?
"Ralph" <nt_consulting64@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"MikeD" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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But I'm testing under XP Home. There are no permissions involved.


Sure there are. You're just not running into issues with them yet. You
said
your app is going to be installed mostly on Vista machines. With your
current design of creating directories directly in the root, you're
likely
going to run into all kinds of problems under Vista.

--
Mike
Microsoft MVP Visual Basic


Mike is trying his best to give you a heads up.

"Ensuring Application Compatibility in Vista"
http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2006/04/25/application-compatibility-in-vista.html

It's a classic Fram issue. You can address the problem now, or you can
fight
it out later.

Also, now is a good time to make Virtual PC your friend.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx

-ralph






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