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20 Jun 2024 07:42:52 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Installation into "My Documents": All Scenes Lost!  
From: Mike Raiford
Date: 14 Sep 2009 13:17:59
Message: <4aae7ac7$1@news.povray.org>
Thorsten Froehlich wrote:

> Tell Microsoft. It has been explained numerous times around here (and 
> elsewhere) that Vista does not always provide access to the programs 
> folder, so POV-Ray had to be changed to be compatible with Vista. You 
> should ask yourself why you didn't provide POV-Ray's installer with the 
> privileges to install in that very folder? - In fact your whole account 
> of what happens make little sense in that regard.

Which reminds me, why doesn't POV-Ray's installer bring up the UAC 
prompt when you tell it to install for all users?

-- 
~Mike


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