Windows 7 Professional

[Bob Rasmussen]

In any discussion of Windows 7 or Vista, there is a HUGE variable: is UAC 
on? If you haven't familiarized yourself with this issue, you need to.

Among other things, UAC causes certain directories to protected (and 
virtualized). The root directory isone of those.

On Tue, 28 Sep 2010, George Simon wrote:

> I just created an fp.bat file in the root directory.
> I can run the fp batch file and start filePro.
> I don't need the FPPATH file because I can set PFDSK, PFDATA, PFPROG,PFDIR, PFMENU, etc., in the batch file.
> You can't do this?
> 
> George Simon
> American River International
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth Brody [mailto:kenbrody at spamcop.net] 
> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 12:52 PM
> To: George Simon
> Cc: filePro Mailing List
> Subject: Re: Windows 7 Professional
> 
> While "regular" users can create directories within the root directory, only 
> a process with "elevated privileges" (ie: "run as administrator") can 
> create/edit/delete files within the root directory.  Even when logged in as 
> an administrator account, you can't touch files in the root directory 
> without doing "run as administrator".
> 
> So, although you can create "\fp" and "\filepro" directories, you can't 
> create "\fppath", nor any startup "\something.bat" file.  Placing everything 
> in something like "\appl" just simplifies things.
> 
> At least, that's the way it's been on all Vista and Windows 7 systems I've 
> looked at.
> 
> -- 
> Kenneth Brody
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