[WT-support] Win-Test in VHF/UHF Contests

[Bernhard Buettner]

 Well, I think I never ran Win-Test as administrator in the last nine
years since I started using WT.

C:ProgramData is actually user-writable. I think that's why the decision
was made to split things up between the executables directory
(C:ProgramFiles (x86)) and the program data directory on Windows Vista
and later.

But indeed - I found out that I could not overwrite vhf.dtb in the
databases directory. However, I could make a copy and the copy is
user-writeable. 

Thanks for coming up with the idea of write permissions, I had not
thought of this!

73 Ben, DL6RAI

Am 19.11.2016 21:24 schrieb Bob Wilson, N6TV: 

> On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 11:52 AM, Bernhard Buettner <dl6rai at darc.de> wrote:
> 
>> 
> 
>> b) I now found the "real" vhf.dtb: It's stored in %APPDATA%LocalVirtualStoreProgramDataWin-Testdatabasesvhf.dtb. This file gets updated by Win-Test and is obviously used while the file in the original location is ignored. The N+1 window says which file it uses (vhf.dtb), but unfortunately not from which directory.
> 
> This only happens if you forgot to install Win-Test, and run Win-Test, with by selecting "Run as an Administrator," as recommended. 
> 
> Right click on the Win-Test shortcut, PROPERTIES, COMPATIBILITY tab, enable RUN THIS PROGRAM AS AN ADMINISTRATOR, and click APPLY and OK. Now Win-Test will update C:PROGRAMDATAWIN-TESTDATABASESVHF.DTB instead of the VirtualStore one (it's Windows security trying to prevent unauthorized programs from overwriting files in protected folders). 
> 
> 73, 
> Bob, N6TV 
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