[Qt-interest] Windows 7 and VirtualStore woes

[Oliver Demetz]

Hi!

Today I have been shocked by the absolutely needles concept of this 
f**king VirtualStore.

Ok. Here is my situation:
I have two apps: My main app, and an Update-Tool that fetches Updated 
exe's from the web.

Everytime my main app starts (as normal user), it writes its 
applicationVersion string into a plain text file called "VERSION" in the 
program dir (i.e. c:\Program Files\Myapp\).

Ok. I found out now, that this file access is redirected to the 
VirtualStore somwhere in the user home-dir.

My update-tool - and this is already the problem - is automatically 
recognised by windows to be necessarily run with admin rights. So if I 
click the exe or a shortcut, windows automatically asks me for the rights.

This leads to the fact that the access to the "VERSION" file is *not* 
redirected to the virtualStore. Thus, both programs use different files.

What is the standard way to solve this problem?

Remark: the best, easiest and simplest way of downgrading to
         good-old windows xp  is unfortunately impossible in my case ;-)


Thanks for your help in advance,
Oliver