Re: CVF and Vista


"Paul van Delst" <Paul.vanDelst@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Steve Lionel wrote:
On Jan 30, 8:51 pm, sureal <sur...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

According to CNET Vista is just a warmed over XP, so CVF should work
just fine, except for an unknown number of service packs until MS cleans
up the bugs.

Whoever wrote that is clueless.

One significant change in Vista is that the registry is locked down so
that, by default, applications cannot modify most registry entries,
even if the user has administrator privileges. Visual Studio depends
on making such changes and is not happy if it cannot. Apparently, VS6
(used by CVF) simply falls over if it is blocked from the registry.
Even VS2005 will behave in odd ways if it can't write the registry.

I would have expected MS to fix VS 2005 so that it operated within the
limits of Vista but apparently they are saving that for the NEXT VS
(code named Orcas). All they did with their Vista compatibility
update was remove VS2005 from the list of "incompatible" applications
and add a popup warning you to run VS as administrator.

So, if I understand you (which I doubt since I know nothing about Windows
at all :o), Vista basically buggers up the system (Visual Studio) upon
which apps like CVF and IVF depend?
No, VISTA is the system. Unlike previous versions, VISTA tries very hard to
keep applications from writing to the registry. Thus Visual Studio can't
bugger up the system, but to change this behavior requires changes to VS.

It's my experience that admin privileges (on windows, linux or mac) are
generally not available to the people that actually use the computer.
You experience with windows is very limited. Perhaps that is correct in an
office environment (where most people should not use administrator level
capability), but it is most assuredly false in a home environment like mine
where I have an account which is a member of the administrators group and an
accout which is a member of the local users group. I do everything hence I
need two accounts.


cheers,

paulv

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