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Originally Posted by flag4
Why is Programes File dodgy. I have 7 and as of yet have never encounterd problems?
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Windows checks if files are modified or saved into this folder structure. If it happens it tries to ask for administrator acceptance via User Account Control, and temporarily locks up your system until that has happened. If your account is an administrator then all you need to do is press the acknowlegde button that pops up. If yours isn't then you have to go through the selection of a account with adminstrative rights, and provide the password.
Unfortunately, some programms (like SH3 that was developed before Vista) do not expect this to happen. With full screen games you might not even notice it. When a timer runs out to provide the administator consent the game is refused in what it wanted to do. And so it could give up and crash/shutdown itself for lack of a more intelligent thing to do.
You could turn off UAC, but you could also avoid Program Files for anything that tries to modify files in it's own folder. (like JSGME or SH3 Commander in SH3 base-folder)