If I install a program (in this case, Freescale's Codewarrior IDE) in Program Files (x86), it launches without asking permission. If I try to install this same program in another directory, it asks permission to run. Is there some way to create a directory that behaves like Program Files (x86) but has a different name. You may wonder why...it has to do with trying to use SVN to work across different platforms. For some unfathomable reason, one of the files that Codewarrior uses to store build parameters also stores the name of some programs. On an XP machine, the relevant string is ...\Program Files\... and on a 64-bit Windows 7 machine, the string is ...\Program Files (x86)\.... As a result, it is not possible to keep this file under version control, so changed build parameters can't be stored. The simplest way around this, or so it seemed when I started, was to install the Codewarrior programs into a directory with the same name on both systems, which would then have that directory instead of either of the Program Files directory in the parameter file. This has proven less than satisfactory, since there seems to be something special about the way programs in Program Files (x86) are launched. I'd like to duplicate this behavior in another directory so that select programs can be put there for clean launching. Is this possible? Thanks!

If I install a program (in this case, Freescale's Codewarrior IDE) in Program Files (x86), it launches without asking permission. If I try to install this same program in another directory, it asks permission to run. Do you mean the UAC prompt?"A programmer is just a tool which converts caffeine into code" CLIP- Stellvertreter http://www.winvistaside.de/