Windows User Access Control (UAC) And RP 1210-Compliancy: Notes

Microsoft's deployment of Windows Vista™ and Windows 7™ has raised concern within TMC's RP 1210 Update Task Force. With Vista/7, Microsoft "virtualized" the "C:\WINDOWS" and "C:\Program Files" directories, calling these "compatibility files." For example, the UNIX/VMS equivalent would be allowing users to install their own programs in SHOME/bin, $HOME/lib, etc. Much of the Task Force's discussion on this has centered on either going to the registry, or to XML files. It was determined that neither would be required if the following two things were done: