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RE: VirtualStore and application upgrades?
Really noone that hra thought of this or think I am way off here and care to
comment?
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/Hasse
"Hasse" wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have a question on this:
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> A program not intended for Vista get installed with elevated privs. as it
> should in the Program Files folder. A user later makes changes to, say, an
> INI file by using the applications GUI to make a preference change. The INI
> file then get virtualized since the user doesn't have write access to PF. So
> far so good.
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> Later on an administrator updates the application, and the update makes
> changes to the original INI file in the PF folder. What happens when the user
> logs on again and uses the application? Does Vista present him with his now
> OLD copy of the INI file from his VirtualStore OR does Vista recognize the
> change and present him with the new INI file that was updated by the
> administrator from the PF folder? If the file is the user's virtualized copy,
> how does an admin go around updating virtualized files? Does the application
> have to be rewritten alltogether to solve this?
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> /Hasse
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