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Originally Posted by Baldo_the_Don
I'll try that step next.
I did just check the security tab on the Novalogic folder and noted that under the BESITZER-ERSTELLER (Owner-Creator) account that no permissions were activated, and upon editing that, it now has just the Special Rights activated, and a pair of special rights accounts were created that can view, read, and run things in this folder, but not write.
I'll see if this helps after the next system start, 'cause for some reason, after the system's been running a while and put in and taken out of standy-by mode a few times, the MEDs start without a hitch.
So... fingers crossed!
I've mentioned access rights and permissions under the security tabs in a lot of trouble-shooting posts before, and it's SOP for me to confirm permission settings when I install any older games anyway, but it hadn't occurred to me 'til you brought it up that, perhaps, the updates are messing with the permissions.
That would be insidious, wouldn't it? I think that would be classifiable as insidious.
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I've suspected a new security hoodoo hex from the word go really.
I think many of the malfunctions I'm experiencing are caused by this new implementation.
It's affecting many other programs especially programs that write data.
For instance I have to completely rebuild most of my own programs now, they have to write vars to temp.
User data to appdata and program data to programdata but they can't write to Program Files or Program Files (x86).
Not without a whole mess of script which has to be externalised because the run-time has to actually execute from the local temp folder.
I gather that this was always the case for NT file systems but it was not as rigorous, getting permissions now is almost impossible.
