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Microsoft sure has done a great job, but I have experienced some issues around Program Files and registry virtualization, along with UAC. I suppose if you run
by magicalhippo 2y ago
Microsoft sure has done a great job, but I have experienced some issues around Program Files and registry virtualization, along with UAC.
I suppose if you run it as admin and/or install it outside Program Files it'll make it a lot less troublesome.
So, not unexpected, but I'd still be mildly surprised.
- chungy 2y ago> some issues around Program Files and registry virtualization, along with UAC. Now that's rattling a thing in my brain. I recall disabling UAC was one of the more consistent ways to get Delphi 6 to even run on Windows 7, and even then it wasn't a guarantee. Yeah, I had the displeasure around 2009-2011 of trying to get an old IDE version running on then-current versions of Windows, with multiple Vista and 7 computers in the office. It ran fine on Windows XP, but newer OSes were not so lucky. Perhaps the solution was to purchase a newer Delphi, but that avenue wasn't sought after.
- tracker1 2y agoYeah... I saw a lot of poorly written apps using localized data in the application's directory, when they started locking down Program Files, all kind of bugs started to pop up. I don't blame MS much, they had some compatibility shims in place, but it was still troublesome. Mostly blame the early app devs for not understanding separation of the application/libraries and the data the app uses/manipulates.