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Originally Posted by Draka
The key point is that starting with Win7, Microsoft has started imposing a lot of restrictions on anything in the Program folders - either Program itself or Program (x86). These are measures that supposedly deter or impede hackers and other malicious programs. Part of it is not allowing any files in those folders to be changed except under very rigorous controls - so any .cfg files are fairly well wonked.
Main idea is to install any files that are constantly being written to in any other folders than the Program ones.
Draka
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Actually, it started with Vista. So those systems it applies to as well.
Someone in this thread called it "buggy". Well, it is behaving exactly as Microsoft intended it. Considering that the game was made in the XP-era before Vista came around, it (and the programs that some modders made) expects it can do some things it cannot do anymore without raising the eyebrows of the OS. In XP everyone got a administrator account by default with much more freedom. So potential malware had free reign on your system. Microsoft decided rightly to put a stop to it, or at least make it harder to go by unnoticed. But whether the solution was a good one is something that can be debated.
From a gamer's or modding perspective it is certainly an annoyance if you find out that changes you made to the files did not stick. It may look broken, but it really is just preventing false positive potential malware actions.