Re: Location for Data Files

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"Karl E. Peterson" <karl@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Rick Raisley wrote:
If you're not an admin, seems you can't easily change NTFS folder
permissions. I can just tell my customers with Vista to run the program
as
an Admin, but that's considered bad practice.

Actually, just the opposite is true. Running *setup* programs as admin is
considered a Best Practice. (To a truly bizarre degree! For example, did
you know
that if your application name contains the word "setup" or "install" that
you can't
create a shortcut on the desktop unless you're running as admin? Any
other program
name, no problem! Nucking futz!) Anyway, have the setup run as admin,
and do the
permissions thing there.


I realize the setup always runs as admin, and I already do that. My setup
program can apparently mark a folder as read-only, etc. but cannot change
NTFS permissions for specific users. At work, here, a power user can install
a program. But he cannot change folder permissions unless he has the rights
to them already.

I'd be happy to put my data
files into a MS-recommended location, if such a location were 1) Obvious
and
easy to find (and browse to) for the user,

Another thought... You could create a start-menu shortcut to the
documents folder.
Not much easier than that.


Yes, someone else suggested that, and I certainly intend to do that. Even if
the location arrived at is pretty "standard", it won't be where the user
expects to find the files, so a shortcut will definitely help.

--
Regards,

Rick Raisley


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