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General Software Discussion / Re: Interesting: Tag2Find, Tagging for All Filetypes for Windows
« on: October 11, 2007, 02:02 AM »
Ahh, if only WinFS had not been scrapped...... we would have had so much more.
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Imagine a legacy notetaking program.
It starts out when installed with a data file called Notes.data in its program directory.
As user adds notes, they get added to this Notes.data file.
I disagree. There are lots of cases when VISTA+UAC allow programs to write to the "real" registry and the "real" directories like \Program Files. In these cases, the UAC pops up and requires user to enter an admin-level password. There is absolutely no reason that Vista couldn't prompt users if a program tries to access these directories.
The files are hidden from the user, where they will never be backed up or accessed. Instead the program thinks its modifying files in one directory and so does the user. When they user goes to look
If you believe that it is BAD for programs to write to the registry or their directories in Program Files (which everyone who approves of virtualization seems to agree upon here), then you should be APPALLED by the MS solution which is completely SILENT when a program does this. No warning is displayed, no notice to the user saying "this program is doing something bad". To me this is the grossest, clearest flaw in the approach, and i find it inexcusable and harmful, with no redeeming aspects.
Tidiness leads to ruin, if you have a database you will need to make sure its up to date, then make sure things always go back where the database says they are, or update the database