Registry key with Path in it
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The company I work for distributes reference books on CD using third party software called Folio Views. The main content stays on the CD, but there is a file stored locally that allows the user to create notes on the content. Because they are stored in different places there is a registry key that tells views where to look for the infobase (content file) in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE//4/Server/NfoPath/Rights. Right now I have the value set to [SOURCEDIR] so that the user has to have the cd in the same drive they installed from. I'm not sure how else to do that. So for example on my Windows XP test machine the key's value is simply "D:\" and on my Vista machine it is "E:\", both these values are correct. The problem comes on the Vista machine, I get an error message from Folio Views that says it can't find the content file. If I go into the registry and change "E:\" to "E:" everything works exactly as intended. Is this an issue with Vista and if so is there some workaround I can use?
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The company I work for distributes reference books on CD using third party software called Folio Views. The main content stays on the CD, but there is a file stored locally that allows the user to create notes on the content. Because they are stored in different places there is a registry key that tells views where to look for the infobase (content file) in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE//4/Server/NfoPath/Rights. Right now I have the value set to [SOURCEDIR] so that the user has to have the cd in the same drive they installed from. I'm not sure how else to do that. So for example on my Windows XP test machine the key's value is simply "D:\" and on my Vista machine it is "E:\", both these values are correct. The problem comes on the Vista machine, I get an error message from Folio Views that says it can't find the content file. If I go into the registry and change "E:\" to "E:" everything works exactly as intended. Is this an issue with Vista and if so is there some workaround I can use?