Yes - that's what I meant. Any program installed in Prog. Files is immediately prey to Vista's rather intrusive interference - including refusing access to you unless you have Admin. rights. The best all-round solution is to disallow any installation to that folder. --- On Thu, 20/11/08, david mayall <[email protected]> wrote: From: david mayall <[email protected]> Subject: Re: WINBMD Output file To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, 20 November, 2008, 8:11 PM 2008/11/19 Michael Kenneth Griffiths <[email protected]> > I'm puzzled by all of this. I have Vista. When I installed WinBMD, I put it > onto the root directory under the folder name WinBMD (surprise!). With no > further effort on my part, all of the output files turn up in > .......WinBMD/Output. > > I assume that this folder is created automatically by WinBMD. > The problem comes if you install WinBMD under program files. Vista doesn't approve of programs storing data there, so it does some virtual linking. -- Dave Mayall FreeBMD-Admins mailing list - archive http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/freebmd-admins FreeBMD http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message