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Posted by John Pollard on April 17, 2007, 11:20 pm
Please log in for more thread options Margaret wrote:
> David A. Lessnau wrote:
>> Margaret,
>>
>> Are you sure your QW.CFG is under
>> C:ProgramDataIntuitQuicken? First, I assume that in
>> your answer, "Program Data" (with a space) is a typo and
>> should be "ProgramData" (no space). Otherwise, that's a
>> difference between your version of Vista (Home Premium)
>> and mine (Ultimate). I definitely don't have a copy
>> under that directory. Mine's under
>> C:UsersDaveAppDataRoamingIntuitQuickenConfig. Again,
>> if yours is where you say it is, that's
>> definitely a difference between Home Premium and
>> Ultimate.
>
> Well I just searched again to be sure, and here's what I
> found:
> 1. You are correct, "Program Data" should be
> "ProgramData". Sorry for the typo.... And BTW, I'm
> running as an Admin with UAC turned off. (Bad, I know,
> but as I said earlier, this is just a testbed with no
> real data on it, and all other security measures are in
> place.)
> 2. When I searched previously, I too had to use the
> advanced search to search C: and subfolders. It did
> find qw.cfg, and I could see only part of the path in the
> search results. I could see "C:users". But when I
> hovered the mouse pointer over it, I got the original
> path (w/o typo) shown below. Guess I should have
> actually navigated to the folder, because the file's not
> there!
>>> Yes, it's in C:Program DataIntuitQuicken
>
> 3. So I just now performed the same exact search, and
> this time, all that came up was a *shortcut* to qw.cfg in
> "Recent Items", which is
> C:UsersmewAppDataRoamingMicrosoftWindows. Interestingly,
> there was no reference to any qw.cfg at
> either the first path I provided *or* your path, David.
> Anyway, checking out the shortcut properties and choosing
> "Open File Location" takes me to
> C:UsersmewAppDataRoamingIntuitQuickenConfig. I
> checked, and sure enough the file is actually there.
> I'm not sure why I saw two different paths (see #2
> above), but upon further digging, I do see there's a file
> "qwpkg.cfg" in C:ProgramDataIntuitQuickenConfig. I'm
> *sure* my original search was "qw.cfg" and not "qw*.cfg".
>
> What's even stranger is what I found (#3) when I did the
> additional search which only returned a shortcut to
> qw.cfg under recent items. I set it to search both C:
> and D: (and subfolders) both times, so I don't see why I
> shouldn't see the original file and the shortcut.
> Nevertheless, repeated searches continues to show just
> the shortcut now, and not the file ... but the file is
> really in the folder where it should be.
> Oh well. I think I will turn off Google Desktop Search
> and configure Vista's built-in search to index my files
> so I can better test Vista's search feature. GDS
> couldn't find qw.cfg *at all*, though it works very
> nicely on my XP Pro machine.
> At least it looks like both Home Premium and Vista do
> store qw.cfg in the same location, although multiple
> searches have turned up different results.
>
> Hope this clarifies, and sorry for any confusion.
>
> Regards,
>
> Margaret
Am I right that both of you are running as admins?
If you were running as a limited user (is that a legitimate term
for Vista?) - as a non-admin user, if you like; would you be
able to locate "qw.cfg". Would you be
able to delete it?
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John Pollard
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