Win7 VirtualStore Weirdness with Excel 2002 and earlier

I thought I'd share a weird experience I had today in case it saves anyone else some time. I updated an add-in, updated the installer for it -- which registers it as an add-in for all installed versions of Excel -- and tested it. Fine in Windows ...

Message posted on the May 25th, 2011 - 2:53 PM ET

Trouble with ini file in win7 x64

This app has been running great since the NT4 days, including on Win2k and XP. But on Win7 X64, I'm having trouble. I'm using this declaration to read my .ini files: Declare Function GetPrivateProfileString& Lib "Kernel32.dll" Alias ...

Message posted on the December 7th, 2009 - 11:38 AM ET

Trouble reading .ini files on Win7 x64

I'm having trouble reading values from a .ini file on windows 7 x64. Specifically, changes that I make in a text editor are not appearing when I try to read them in through my application. Other settings that have been in the .ini file for ages ...

Message posted on the April 21st, 2010 - 8:37 AM ET

Folder Permissions

Although I know the basics about folder permissions and about how things tie into the users' VirtualStore folders in Vista and Win7 I have never been able to get my head around how to specify desired security attributes when creating a new folder, ...

Message posted on the December 11th, 2011 - 9:07 AM ET

Sync folder in programs problem

I have an older program that I like to keep several files within the "program folders x86" synced between multiple computers. I setup a win7 system and upon first sync the files are moved to '%user data%AppDataLocalVirtualStoreProgram ...

Message posted on the March 20th, 2009 - 4:18 AM ET

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