>applications broke for … they were written to store configuration and other data in their installation directory, which defaulted to "C:\Program Files" Vista

>applications broke for … they were written to store configuration and other data in their installation directory, which defaulted to "C:\Program Files" Vista tried to take care of that by transparently redirecting to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore, writable with user privileges. The feature is called Virtual File Store, and comes together with an analogous Virtual Registry Store. See https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb756960.aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb7... at Virtualization