HOME ➔ SUPPORT ➔ Community ➔ General CourseLab issues ... VISTA & Templates (All versions)
VISTA & Templates (All versions)
  View type:
Helpful hints for M$ Vista users.

If like me you use vista you'll find that if you make a template and try to add it to the 'MyTemplates' in vista you get an error. This will be a permissions problem as on Vista the Programs folder is protected, which means applications shouldn't add or change files in that folder when run by ordinary users.

You can get around this in three different ways..

1.The first, and easiest, way to ensure things work is to simply install Courselab into a sub-directory of your User folder. Vista will set all file permissions correctly, and you'll have no trouble saving data. The downside with this approach is that on a multi-user system, each person would need to install their own copy of Courselab.
UNFORTUNATELY THE COURSELAB MSI DOESN'T ALLOW YOU TO SELECT WHERE IT IS INSTALLED. :(

2.The second way is to install to the Programs folder as usual, but set the 'run as' permissions on the Courselabs exe file to 'Administrator'. This will ensure that the program can write to its data files.
THIS DOES WORK :)

3. The third way is to set the Courselabs exe to 'Windows XP compatibility mode', which will allow things to work just as they do on previous versions of Windows.
THIS DOES WORK TOO :)


Generally you can install most applications in administrator mode but should not run it in this mode directly after installation.
If you do, the application will create its settings file with administrator-only permissions, and when you run the app as a regular user it will not be able to save its settings.
THERE IS A WAY TO FIX THIS: Simply highlight all the files in the application folder and set all the permissions so that your regular user account can write to them.
 
well for a single user, just turning off that user account control (UAC)worked for me [:)]
 
 
The hints are for those who don't like to fiddle with the security model, or who can't for one reason or another.
There's enough holes in VISTA's security without making more LOL so many users will be happy to put up with UAC and this was aimed at them.
Subject:
Message options
No additional options