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H.G.Muller



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PostPost subject: Question to Windows users    Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 10:00 am Reply to topic Reply with quote
What would be the best place in modern Windows systems to store the user settings file of a GUI? For WinBoard I so far always used the user's Application Data directory:

C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\ on XP
C:\Users\<user>\AppData\ on Vista
C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\AppData\Roaming\ on Win7 (it seems)

But I now get complaints that these folders cannot be written without administrator permission. (And it is hidden.)

Is this really unintended use of the AppData folder? Where else would a user expect a settings file for an application he installed? Should the winboard.ini file be better located in his "My Documents" folder?
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Question to Windows users H.G.Muller Fri Sep 14, 2012 10:00 am
      Re: Question to Windows users Edoardo Manino Fri Sep 14, 2012 10:10 am
      Re: Question to Windows users Giorgio Medeot Fri Sep 14, 2012 10:19 am
            Re: Question to Windows users H.G.Muller Fri Sep 14, 2012 10:27 am
      Re: Question to Windows users Lucas Braesch Fri Sep 14, 2012 10:32 am
            Re: Question to Windows users H.G.Muller Fri Sep 14, 2012 1:10 pm
                  Re: Question to Windows users Stefano Gemma Fri Sep 14, 2012 1:33 pm
                        Re: Question to Windows users Martin Sedlak Fri Sep 14, 2012 1:44 pm
                              Re: Question to Windows users Michel Van den Bergh Fri Sep 14, 2012 1:48 pm
                                    Re: Question to Windows users Martin Sedlak Fri Sep 14, 2012 2:05 pm
                        Re: Question to Windows users H.G.Muller Fri Sep 14, 2012 1:45 pm
                              Re: Question to Windows users Stefano Gemma Fri Sep 14, 2012 2:09 pm
                                    Re: Question to Windows users H.G.Muller Fri Sep 14, 2012 2:27 pm
                                          Re: Question to Windows users Andy Platt Fri Sep 14, 2012 2:37 pm
                                          Re: Question to Windows users Martin Sedlak Fri Sep 14, 2012 2:41 pm
                                          Re: Question to Windows users Stefano Gemma Fri Sep 14, 2012 2:43 pm
      Re: Question to Windows users Ray Banks Fri Sep 14, 2012 12:22 pm
            Re: Question to Windows users H.G.Muller Fri Sep 14, 2012 12:56 pm
                  Re: Question to Windows users F. Bluemers Fri Sep 14, 2012 2:47 pm
                        Re: Question to Windows users Stefano Gemma Fri Sep 14, 2012 2:56 pm
                              Re: Question to Windows users F. Bluemers Fri Sep 14, 2012 3:19 pm
      Re: Question to Windows users Gian-Carlo Pascutto Fri Sep 14, 2012 4:40 pm
            Re: Question to Windows users Brian Richardson Sat Sep 15, 2012 2:57 am
                  Re: Question to Windows users H.G.Muller Sat Sep 15, 2012 7:03 am
                        Re: Question to Windows users Brian Richardson Sat Sep 15, 2012 10:38 am
                              Re: Question to Windows users H.G.Muller Sat Sep 15, 2012 12:53 pm
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                                    Re: Question to Windows users H.G.Muller Sun Sep 16, 2012 6:18 pm
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                                                Re: Question to Windows users H.G.Muller Mon Sep 17, 2012 9:39 am
                                                      Re: Question to Windows users Eric Mullins Mon Sep 17, 2012 2:57 pm
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