Mathuin wrote:
> applications have faced this problem in the past, and have a solution t
hat
> doesn't involve disabling UAC.

This would seem to be the root of the problem:

"""
Applications written with the assumption that the user will be running 
with administrator privileges experienced problems in earlier versions 
of Windows when run from limited user accounts, often because they 
attempted to write to machine-wide or system directories (such as 
Program Files) or registry keys (notably HKLM)[3]. UAC attempts to 
alleviate this using File and Registry Virtualization, which redirects 



m 


write to that directory, the write will get redirected to 


"""

( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Account_Control )

Normal users don't get to write to \program files any more. Per-user 
data really needs to go in the per-user directories (or per-user 
registry keys) in Windows, just like in UNIX. :-)

Altho last I asked, I was told this was fixed in the latest POV-Ray, so 
once it's out of beta....

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)

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