macros + vista + delete wtf, interface, casche = bad

[Gibbin]

I was having an issue getting my addons too work with keyclone, whenever i ran wow as admin(if keyclone is admin for some reson it starts wow's as admin) i had no addons or was missing a bunch of em, and whenever i tried too reinstall the new ones it just told me they were allready there. Turns out one of the features of vista the "uac"(sounds kinda xenosaga'ish) user account controll, cache's a copy of all your program folders in a hidden file, and if you delete your trinity(cache wtf, interface) a complete copy of them stays in the virtual cache that windows has, you need too delete the virtual copy too or you will run into the same problem i did, as admin wow wont look for the virtual copy of addons.

so when you are exploring your harddrive, on a vista system, too delete those three, when you click on em, somewhere at the top there will be a link too the virtual files, wich must be deleted too.



hope i didnt confuse anybody, and all that info is typed out a lil better on the bliz support site

/cheers

[Stealthy]

vista = bad

Fixed.
Vista is fine.



Lern2OS

:P

[Otlecs]

UAC caches files? The first thing I did was disable UAC, so it won't affect me, but I obviously have a large hole in my understanding here.

Can you post a link to the support article you mentioned for me? I couldn't find it with a quick search

[Sarduci]

UAC puts things in their own little playground. Improper understanding of how things work is at fault here. I run UAC on all of my Vista systems and all of them work fine. The underlying mechanic is to provide backward compatability to applications that do not conform to new Vista coding standards by fiddling with protected parts of the registry or system files/directories and permissions.

[Gibbin]

http://www.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?articleId=18761&categoryId=
here's a link, it is for patch updates but has the info on how too delete wtf, cache, and interface, without macros messing up. those virtual files have all the same content as the normal ones.

[Otlecs]

Thanks!

I'd never heard of the "virtual store" before.