Alain <ele### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> During the install process, the instaler will ask you where you want to install,
> and suggest a default path: program filesPOV-Ray...
> You are never limited by that suggestion. Here, you can chose another location,
> just browse to another location OUT of the program files folder.
> The reason is that Vista don't let you edit any *.INI files located anywhere in
> program files.
>
> If you actualy move the installed POV-Ray afterward, once you run it from the
> new location, it should recreate it's entries in the new location. (it does when
> they are missing)
> As for runing as administrator, that should have been discouraged since Win95!

This seems like a lot of extra work, when all that you REALLY need is to
r-click on the install folder and change the permissions to allow
write/modify by all users.  This has cleaned up all my problems under Vista
Ultimate
64-bit.

Regards,

Jeff McClain

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