KWhitehead wrote:
It depends on how you have the security set up in Win 7. If you are using default settings on Win7 all folders in the "Program Files" folders are write protected. Since HPS games don't turn on Admin privileges they cannot write to these folders and usually fail. Until, which is highly unlikely, they rewrite the HPS game installers to use Admin privileges to change the folders to read/write or use the Windows data area which is impossible to find, HPS games will usually not work in the default install folders in "Program Files".
While it is possible to make the games work in the "Program Files" folders it is difficult. The best solution is to install it in a folder not in "Program Files" where the programs will have full read/write access to their files. For those few people to have completely disabled Windows 7 security there is no problem. Of course this exposes your computer to being easily hacked.
Microsoft system developers, apparently in some kind of drug induced haze, decided that code and data should be separated and code would only be installed into folders that used Administrative privileges to be written too. They then added this nightmare scheme for installing the data files into hash generated folders in a special area of the user section. Sometime go into Windows Explorer and bore down through the folders:
C: -> Users -> {your user name} -> AppData -> Local
and take a look at the god awful mess they made.
Most new programs get around this by using "My Documents" as their data area. There you will find the data folders for Windows complient programs like Quicken, etc. I doubt HPS will be rewriting all their games to use these areas.
Sir, thank you for your assistance.....but, I have a question....are you saying use the "my documents" file to download the HPS games into?
Regards