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4 May 2024 03:24:02 EDT (-0400)
  Re: LionSnake works under Vista  
From: John VanSickle
Date: 9 Jul 2007 15:26:10
Message: <46928bd2@news.povray.org>
JeffBTX wrote:
> Minor Corrections (StupidFingersToday): My install path c:LionSnake
> My processor is AMD 64 X2 5200+ (not 63(??) X2)
> 
> Anyway - should explain - Vista seems to exhibit very strange behaviour,
> designed to 'protect' your system. Vista becomes an unholy 'control freek'
> with many apps under the 'Program Files' or 'Program Files (x86)' paths; if
> it is an app that was not specifically designed for Vista, following strict
> Vista design guidelines and blessed by the high Muckety Muckety Priest of
> Microsoft Billy Gates, you find that you can't change .INI files, or
> changes to .INI files have no effect; if you change settings WITHIN the app
> sometimes they have no effect, etc. I had to hack my registry to get my
> virus scanner to work the way it should.

Reason #475 that I am going to make the app Open Source very soon...

Regards,
John


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