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    <p>I have a windows forms application that reads and updates an XML file with information which a windows service must act on.</p> <p>This has been working on Windows Server 2003, XP and Vista (x32) for some time.</p> <p>Now, when installed on Windows Server 2008 x64, strange things have started happening, thanks I assume to the User "VirtualStore" folder redirecting security arrangement (which as you can tell I don't fully understand yet).</p> <p>The Windows Forms app wants to create, read and update the files in c:\user\username\appdata\local\virtualstore\programdata\appname but the service seems happy reading the data from the file in c:\program files\appname...</p> <p>The result is they are looking at different data.</p> <p>Now, if I set both executables to "run as an administrator" via the properties/compatibility tab, this problem goes away and the file in c:\program files\appname is used as expected.</p> <p>However, this feels less than ideal.</p> <p>As you can probably tell, I am not really aware of most of the issues / factors at work here.</p> <p>This question is possibly too broad to answer well on Stack Overflow but can someone point in the right direction or alert me to what I need to understand so that my applications can work properly in the Win2008 x64 environment, and continue to work as they do now, on XP, Vista x32 etc.</p> <p>My user base is not at all technical so I don't want to force them to be making technical "behind the scenes" changes - if possible, I want the setup program to handle this for them.</p>
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