User rights with Win7 Home Premium

[adebar]

Hello,

i have created 32Bit and 64bit setup projects for my vbnet application.

After installation, the 32bit program works properly on a 32bit XP but with the 64bit program i have a problem under Windows 7 HP.

It is compiled as 64Bit and properly installed in a subfolder under "C:\Program Files" and not in "C:\Program Files (x86)". In my program i generate an inifile which should be saved in the program folder but i figured out that the user does not have write permissions for this folder.

If i navigate to the program folder and grant the access rights for the current user to "full access", everything is working properly.

Currently i am developing on a Win32 XP-Pro notebook, the new one (64bit, Win7) will arrive middle of next week. I am using VS2008 Pro.

Any suggestions

adebar

 

[adebar]

Hello,

i fixed it with storing the settings in the My Documents folder instead of program folder.

This works with 32 and 64 Bit.

adebar

 

[JohnH]

These dynamic properties shows where application data can be stored:

• Application.UserAppDataPath
• Application.CommonAppDataPath

Also available with My.Computer.FileSystem.SpecialDirectories and Environment.GetFolderPath Method (System)

 

[adebar]

Thank you for that tip !

I did it with My.Computer.FileSystem.SpecialDirectories. Did not notice that there are alternatives.

Greetings
angryjack

 

[JuggaloBrotha]

I store setting's files in the AppData folder so the user doesn't see it and my program has full read/write access to it.