Virtualized folder vista

They could be in the program files folder if UAC is off; or they could be in the user's VirtualStore folder if UAC is on; or they could be in the application folder if the user chose not to install the app originally in a non-progran files folder.

Do you see the problem here? It's even worse than that because if they installed in the program files folder with UAC on, only those data files which have been amended written to will be in the VirtualStore folder; those which haven't been used will still be in the program files folder! Friday, December 15, AM. I have a very similar question, but a slightly different take on the solution. We're currently working on a version of the software that will be more compatible with Vista, but several users have jumped the gun and installed older versions of the software on Vista already.

The program's manifest is set up so the user does not need administrator access, but the program will not use virtualized folders i. This is necessary because several users particularly those on college campuses with large networks don't have administrator accounts.

What the program does at this point is copy the user's data out of Program Files where it previously resided and into Shared Documents. However, the program copies the data out of the non-virtualized Program Files.

Improve this answer. Michael Madsen Michael Madsen The "Visual Studio" path name above actually was only an example, to show that the problem is not a bug in our help files.

Our program is installation-free i. Therefore, we cannot use the registry to determine the installation location. We have to rely on Assembly. Location or similar methods to get the installation location; these methods always return "Programme" instead of "Program Files". Creating a test app and printing Assembly. Location gives me the English name, not the localized name shown in Explorer - which it should , because you're supposed to use the Windows API when you want to show the localized name instead of the real name.

Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. I have the same problem locating this virtualized folder too. It only appears if you know the direct link to this folder path, or else everything it claims to be there are "hidden" from user in such a way that no "search" or "show hidden files" will help. Another weird symptom I found with vista is if all your filenames start with a date e. I have no clue when it will and when it will not.

What I have noticed is "somehow" vista decides to separate a file with "name" and "filename" attributes, where "name" is show by default and "filename" can be selected from the hidden columns. How "filename" and "name" differ is a big mystery, because from what I see, they are exactly the same. I am so regret buying Vista now and for the fact that Microsoft does not provide options to downgrade back to XP is so unprofessional and irresponsible.

No wonder many people are switching to mac or linux these days Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? Internet Explorer TechCenter. Sign in. If you could post that stack here, we can help you decipher it. The OS will manage these folders, to an extent. It sounds like maybe you aren't explicitly writing to disk, but you're doing something that causes someone to write a. The stack should find the culprit, but things like doing a download, extracting an MSI or CAB file, etc, all tend to poop temp files.

EnsureTempNameCreated at System. AddExtension String fileExtension at Microsoft. GetBytes at Domppari. Could it be that it generates these runtime assemblies and needs a place to save them to? If so, the only question still is, why these folders do not exist automatically.

I'm aware that with FW2.