Save games and vista

[Mar]

I know there is a few(2) topics about this. But i cant seem to find the save games anywhere. Whats the name of them? Couldnt find them as another poster did in the app/more/more/more/Aquaria. I curse Vista!

[smjjames]

yea, windows vista does wierd things with how it files things.

Try doing a search for aquaria and set it to search everywhere instead of just the indexed parts.

One good thing about Vista though is that you can bookmark file locations.

[dthunt]

If virtualized writes from Program Files are the culprit, you can I suspect you might find them under:
system drive:\users\myusername\appdata\local\virtualstore\programfiles\aquaria.

[Lim-Dul]

Don't curse Vista - curse yourself for not managing access rights the correct way. =)

Vista doesn't let you write to Program Files when you're not an administrator and that's OK - that means that the system is secure. Unix/Linux systems don't let you read/write certain files if you're not on a root account either - curse Linux/Unix, too, I guess...

[Zaratus]

I don't mind much that Vista writes stuff to weird places instead of Program Files, now that I know where it goes to. =P 

I have admin rights, just it doesn't run everything as an administrator - I can just right click and run as admin, set programs to always run as admin, or whatever I need to do without changing anything, and I prefer it that way.  At least that way, I know stuff is pretty much safe.  I'm pretty computer savvy, but I've still gotten hit with some random viruses from time to time.  (Ugh, in particular were some annoying ones embedded in a sites banner ads - I think YouTube had some issues with that a while back (ugh, I got it from YouTube more than once too), and I think I got it from Underdogs before as well)  Stuff just started downloading and installing itself on me.  Was *really* annoying, had it hit two different computers too.  I remember another that tried replacing my program files, but the virus scanner caught that.  It literally replaced the .exes of about five programs in the windows startup with its own junk.  Oddly enough, the virus made backups of what it replaced.  It made a new folder in the program folder, and stuck the original .exe in there.  How thoughtful for when I had to remove the virus. =P  Oh, and then never forget fixing viruses other family members download.  One fun one was the one that was in the windows startup and as a currently running process - virus scanner couldn't get rid of it either.  If you tried to end-task it, it'd just start back up.  If you took it out of the windows startup, it'd put itself back in.  Fun stuff.  It's like a puzzle. =D 

Pretty sure some of those would have a much tougher time doing that with Vista, at least.  And I really don't mind the slight naggings - when I run a new program that's unrecognized or want to install something, I have to approve it.  No biggie, and it can save some headaches. 

Alrighty, I'm definitely rambling a bit, and I'm way off topic.  Definitely my cue to go to bed.