[Bldg-sim] windows Vista and modeling programs

[Crawley, Drury]

We have run into this in any directory that is not under My Documents.
You must have administrator rights or you cannot write logs, temporary
files or outputs to a directory (not just those under \Program Files\ ).

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[mailto:bldg-sim-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of David
Bradley
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 9:47 AM
To: Karen Walkerman
Cc: bldg-sim at lists.onebuilding.org
Subject: Re: [Bldg-sim] windows Vista and modeling programs

Karen,
 We haven't run into any incompatibilities between TRNSYS and Windows
Vista. The one annoyance with it is that Vista's security is very
restrictive about what users and what programs can write in the \Program
Files\ directory. As far as I have been able to tell only users with
administrator privileges can write in that directory. If TRNSYS is
installed in \Program Files then whoever is using it needs to have admin
rights so that TRNSYS can write all of its log, list, and output files
there. I don't think that this issue is specific to TRNSYS, I imagine
that it will crop up with anything that is designed to be fully
contained in a single directory that is installed in \Program Files.
Cheers,
 David


Karen Walkerman wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm considering purchasing a new computer and want to check if anyone 
> knows of energy simulation program complications with Windows Vista.
>  I regularly use eQuest, Contam, Therm5, and Window5.  I will probably

> be using Trnsys more in the future.
>
> Thanks!
>
> ~Karen~
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