[softwarelist] Re: OPW - Font list, XP vs Vista (32-bit)

  • From: Martin Longley <mlongley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2008 11:53:56 +0000 (GMT)

In article <94a54f7d4f.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
   Martin Wuerthner <public@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[Snip]

> Things are far worse than that. For instance, you may be logged in as 
> an admin and change some system file (or registry entry) and you will 
> find that everything looks OK, but if you have UAC enabled (which it 
> is by default) you will find out later that Windows has not actually 
> changed the system file at all, it has only created a file in your 
> local user store and overlays it onto the system file to make you 
> think the change has happened. When you log in again as the same user 
> you see the changed file but the system itself or other users still 
> see the original system file, so the files Windows shows you, even 
> when you are logged in as an admin, are not those that are stored on 
> the hard disc.

> VirtualRPC stores its HostFS directory (the emulated RiscPC hard disc) 
> in its installation directory, which effectively stops VirtualRPC from 
> working correctly on Vista while UAC is on. With UAC off it works 
> fine.

And you can turn UAC off in the Users section of Control Panel. Do it now. You
know it makes sense!

Martin Longley

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