![]() ![]() This would work, but contradicted Microsoft's goal of having uses run things as Administrator only for a good reason related to actually administering the system, like installing a program. ![]() ![]() Tell users to run everything as Administrator, like they had always done before. Insist that games be updated or abandoned. Microsoft knew they had no hope of getting all the relevant programs to be updated to write to user-specific paths ("C:\Users\Me\My Documents\My Games\"), due both to the number of affected games and that some of those games had been abandoned by their creators, who may in turn have gone out of business. When Windows Vista made it much harder to run programs as Administrator, these programs would have been unable to save their data to the Administrator-only paths. Prior to Windows Vista, it was common practice for everyone to run everything as Administrator, so many programs developed the bad habit of writing their user-specific data (like your save games, or your exported characters) to paths that they should not have used, such as C:\Windows or the game's install directory. Radiolaria: What do you mean by it becoming virtualized? I've never heard of that :-) Starting in Windows Vista, and as far as I know continuing in all subsequent Windows (Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10), certain filesystem paths have special rules. ![]()
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