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[jyang72211]

In the forum, people would do a "horizontal line and jyang72211 wrote:" to enclose my post before replying.  Is there an efficient way of doing this?

[crossrulz]

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@jyang72211 wrote:

In the forum, people would do a "horizontal line and jyang72211 wrote:" to enclose my post before replying.  Is there an efficient way of doing this?

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Like the quote button?

[jyang72211]

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@crossrulz wrote:

Like the quote button?

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Unbelievable.  Now, it stares at me in the face everyday, but I fail to see it 🙂  Thanks for pointing it out.

[jyang72211]

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@yenknip wrote:

- Almost anything that involves writing to file is resolved through the Get System Directory VI

- Additional resources like plug-ins are saved to the Application Data Directory, again read with the Get System Directory VI

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What did you mean by comment above? An example?

[yenknip]

With reference to...

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@yenknip wrote:

Microsoft have been trying to encourage developers to separate program files, user files, and program data files since Windows XP. In Vista they began to mildly enforce it; depending on whether the program is being run by an administrator or as a standard user, the program may not be allowed to write to the Program Files directory.

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If a program is running from say (C:\Program Files\My App\App.exe) then the directory it is in (C:\Program Files\My App\App.exe) is a protected location. In XP this protection was not enforced by the operating system. A lot of software companies put config files and extra downloadable resources in that directory to keep them together.

In Vista and Win 7, the program directory protection is enforced. A standard user cannot write to these directories, this is why we sometimes have to run a program with administrator rights. The Get System Directory vi will return the correct path for public access directories that should be used for config files etc. (example for XP)