Thanks for the information Dave. I upgraded to Win 7, from XP, a few months ago. I 
must admit I really like it. It boots up a lot faster then XP. I have not run into 
this problem, but I disabled UAC and log into an account that has admin privileges.

Regards,
Larry Cochrane
Redwood City, PSN

On 10/26/2010 2:44 PM, Dave Nelson wrote:
> In their infinite wisdom Microsoft has added some 'features" in the later versions of
> windows under the general heading of "User Account Control". These new capabilities
> can and will modify the way Winsdr and probably Winquake operate in the system.
> Specifically windows will modify the channel .ini files and the winsdr.ini files to
> "redirect' the data files to a location deeply buried in a user folder. If you are
> like me, I like those files in the same directory as the program.
> This link is an excellent summary of the problem and how to deal with it.
> http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/developers/archive/2009/08/04/user-account-control-data-redirection.aspx
> This is not a fault in Larry's software , just the way the newer Windows deal with
> data files in the context of multi user systems
> I am definitely NOT a software guru so this would be a good time for those who are
> more knowledgeable than I to add information on this subject
> Regards,
> Dave Nelson
> Rolling Hills Estates , California
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