Jerry Turnbow

Reply to Why install all over my computer? in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

[quote who="DaveRI" reply="11" id="2548502"] It's not so much a matter of accessing ("reading") as it is a matter of creating, modifying, and deleting. And keeping user settings seperated, protected, and private. I'm not going to say Stardock's stuff is totally optimized, don't really know if it is or not, but that's where the general splitting up comes from.[/quote] Thanks for the reply mate. I'm really not sure why I'm argueing the point here, it just bugs me f

Reply to Why install all over my computer? in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

I found yet another Stardock location when trying to locate the archives that I made of Windowsblinds and Iconpackager. c:/ProgramData/Stardock/app folder Good god, you cannot tell me that this could not be narrowed down to one or two locations at the most, even in a multi-user environment. This is silly, I don't believe for a minute that MS dictates that apps have to be installed and stored in two dozen places to make multi-user work...

Reply to Why install all over my computer? in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

[quote who="c242" reply="3" id="2547966"]If You look very close a lot of programs do that. It's a windows thing (even more since Vista), often not 'their' fault.[/quote] I certainly understand that you have to follow the directions set forth by Microsoft. But I think that multiple users have access to everything that I install to Program Files (x86) if I tell it to during install. Not all of the things that I install are scattered all over the place, yet they are still useable i

Why install all over my computer? in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

I have Object Desktop installed, and use WindowBlinds and love it. I was looking for the skins folder because I wanted to change some graphics on a skin. That was when I realized that the software wasn't just installed to the Program File (x86) folder (on Windows 7). I mean the actual .exe's are in there within their respective program folder, but there are Stardock folders in what seems like 15 different places on my hard drive. The apps are in: c:/Program Files (x86)/Stardoc