OT.Entering PW4 License on Windows7

[Bob Rasmussen]

On Tue, 9 Aug 2011, Kenneth Brody wrote:

> On 8/9/2011 12:25 PM, Bob Rasmussen wrote:
> [...]
> > Behind the scenes: if you are not running elevated, certain operations
> > appear to work, but get "virtualized". One of these is creating files
> > within the "Program files" tree. Another is writing to the registry, which
> > is where we keep our registration information.
> 
> Which sounds fine, until you get things "virtualized" even though the 
> program _does_ have permission.  I was using IE9 a couple of weeks ago, and 
> tried saving some images from a web page.  I chose the "my pictures" 
> "library", and it saved it just fine.  But, looking at the "my pictures 
> library" outside of IE9 didn't show the file.  I tried saving it again, and 
> IE9 told me the file already existed.  I eventually found the file in the 
> "C:\Users\Kenneth\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet 
> Files\Virtualized\C\Users\Kenneth\Pictures" folder, which isn't even the 
> "real" virtualized folder of "C:\Users\Kenneth\AppData\Local\VirtualStore".

I believe that in certain circumstances, IE runs as another user and/or in 
some sort of "security box", in an effort to protect your system. The 
behavior you saw may be as a result of that.

Regards,
....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.

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