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Originally Posted by willisgt
IVista apparently has certain special security 'features' with respect to the 'Program Files' folder, which were interfering the my application's operation.
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To expand in case it is of use to somebody else. In general unless an app is running as an administrator Vista, for security reasons, will not let an app write into a folder under "Program Files" and will not give any warning that it has blocked such attempts. Vista provides a folder "ProgramData" where Vista aware apps are free to create folders and write temporary data. However many legacy apps will try to write to their installation folders and these either need folder permissions changing or to be run a administrators.