Problems with other people's Vista!

Member 868926

Hi I have an application that runs fine in XP, and also in Vista on my laptop. However users are reporting problems in Vista, particularly concerning saving files and this message when they quit the programme: "This application has requested the Runtime to terminate in an unusual way" I presume this is something to do with me having installed Visual C++ 2008 on the laptop, so I have certain libraries or files that other users don't. I know this is a bit vague, but I thought someone might recognise the problem. Thanks in advance if you can help. Greg Chapman

Maximilien

maybe you have to install the runtime redistributable? Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package (x86) [^]

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Code o mat

I don't know Vista much (stayed away from it) but it could also be access right issues. Like, when you boot your vista you log in with an admin user and have all the rights to write everywhere and anything, but when your users log in as normal users, your progran no longer can read/write to certain parts of the registry, the filesystem and who knows whatnot.

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Member 868926

Thanks for your replies. It would be a shame if I had to include the distributable package - I think it would put me off installing a little shareware app; and most things work OK. I'll try and explore the access rights idea - but it's hard to find bugs when they don't occur on the development machine! Cheers Greg

Chuck OToole

Instead of linking against the DLL version of the runtime, link the runtime statically. It will make your image larger but remove the need to includes / install the redistributables.

Member 868926

I finally worked it out. You were right about access priveleges etc. On quitting my app would try and update a data file in the app's own program folder - hence the error (unless the folder's priveleges had been manually changed, or UAC turned off). I turned off UAC within about 5 minutes off getting Vista, so didn't realise what was happening. Doesn't this make developing software for Vista a lot more complicated? Is Windows 7 the same? Thanks again GC