Anilrgowda

Runnig Vista Ultimate Upgrade installed clean over Vista Ultimate Upgrade -- learned that trick in Experts Exchagne but thought that may be pertinent to the discussion.

Installed Office 2007. Installed AVG antivirus. Everything was working. Installed Outlook OneNote 2002 -- way cool.

Then I tried to download Adobe Reader 8.0, and it kept telling me I couldn't access the temp folder. Somehow, by downloading it again, I could install it.

Then the weird stuff happened. I couldn't open Outlook due to not being able to access the .pst file. I tried everything -- had already turned off UAC. Turned it back on in case. I tried giving permissions to Administrator and my user, but I already had permissions. The path to Outlook was the Users/Application Data/Local Setting Settings which seems the reverse of XP. Anyway, when I tried to open Application Data or Local Settings it gave this rude error that I had no addess to those folders. Very strange.

Overall, I am not really liking Vista. Am I judging it too quickly?

Thanks

Maybe Microsoft is having the last laugh on the workaround clean install?

Anilrgowda

> Anyway, when I tried to open Application Data or Local Settings it gave this rude error that I had no addess to those folders.

This is due to the fact that those folders are actually junctions meant just for older applications to access. You should open the folders those point to.
A list of junctions in Vista and their targets is here: Svrops.com - Windows Vista Junction Points
Justin