Re: Vista makes me crazy, please help.

On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:31:35 -0000, "Dave O." <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

¤ > No, it does make sense. These guidlines have been in place since W2K (at
¤ > least), just no one followed them. Now the OS is enforcing them.
¤ > Tom Shelton
¤
¤ Yes but Microsoft themselves ignored these recommendations, look at SQL
¤ Server, ALL it's data is stored under Program Files, that sets a really good
¤ example, but of course Microsoft were able to program Vista with exceptions
¤ to allow their badly coded stuff to work thereby leaving any coder who
¤ followed their example nicely stuffed.

Of course quite a few software applications written pre-Vista store their data under a Program Files
folder and SQL Server has been around for quite a while. In any event, SQL Server runs as a service
under a non-interactive account so it's not a typical application.


Paul
~~~~
Microsoft MVP (Visual Basic)
.

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