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.

That's because INI files (and other configuration files) for programs 
should not be in Program Files along with the programs' binaries.  They 
should be stored in the appropriate place in the Users folder ("The Folder 
Formerly Known as Documents and Settings").

Lance.

thezone - thezone.firewave.com.au

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