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Author Topic: Stop creation of InstallInfo.dat in AppData?  (Read 6,510 times)

TheQwerty

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Stop creation of InstallInfo.dat in AppData?
« on: October 10, 2007, 04:23 PM »
I'm a new user of SC and I love what I see so far, but I was wondering if it's possible to get it to not create %AppData%\DonationCoder\Keys\DonationCoder_ScreenshotCaptor_InstallInfo.dat each time it is run?

I've tried updating the ConfigDir.ini file to force the use of the current directory but each time I start SC it recreates the file.

It's not a big deal but I prefer it if the portable applications I use are not writing to the host machine(s).

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Re: Stop creation of InstallInfo.dat in AppData?
« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2007, 04:42 PM »
thats a really good request -- what you see is a recent change to better comply with VISTA and MS desires, but as you say in the portable case that is kind of annoying.

let me see if i can at least add an option in the special ConfigDir.ini file to not do that.

TheQwerty

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Re: Stop creation of InstallInfo.dat in AppData?
« Reply #2 on: October 10, 2007, 04:58 PM »
That would be most appreciated!  :Thmbsup:

Thank you!

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