Should I use a VirtualStore solution on Vista?

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Because my application need to write settings in Program Files. So, please me choose a solution: 1. Should I use VirtualStore solution when use on Windows Vista & Windows 7? 2. Use manifest to run application with Administator mode.

See this topic: http://forums.techarena.in/vista-help/730258.htm

Please give me some suggestions. Thanks.

And if I use VirtualStore solution, how to know VirtualStore is being used & how to get the VirtualStore's path.

Thank you.

Why don't you just fix the application and write a) to the user's directory or b) to the all users profile? — Benjamin Podszun, Jan 19 '10 at 11:23

score -1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 19 '10 at 11:30

If you're really that lazy and don't want to save the data to the user's application data directory where it belongs, you need to enable virtualization for the process, and then you can write to Program Files while Windows handles the rest.

Get a handle to your process token using OpenProcessToken.
Enable virtualization for the token by calling SetTokenInformation with TokenVirtualizationEnabled.

Should I use a VirtualStore solution on Vista?

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