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Hi guys...

OK, here's the situation: After a lot of playing about on Vista Home (urgh) I've installed PB 4.30 in a subdirectory of the Public folder because of Permissions problems because I run as a Limited user (gotta love UAC and Vista "security" *pukes*).

I've installed as Limited and Admin in \Program Files\, C:\PureBasic\ and PUBLIC\PB43\...

In all installations I've noticed a really niggling problem: AutoComplete doesn't function when running as a Limited user, but works fine when running as Admin.

Now maybe some registry settings are going in the wrong place - or it could be a "deeper" file-perms problem somewhere (though I doubt either)...

Has anyone else encountered/solved this problem? I know it's just a niggle, but it's bloody annoying!

There was a bug with AutoComplete when v4.30 was first released. You need
to download it again as it was fixed quickly. An announcement was made.

PB wrote:There was a bug with AutoComplete when v4.30 was first released. You need
to download it again as it was fixed quickly. An announcement was made.

DOH!!! I must have missed that!!! :roll:

Thanks for the heads-up, I'll go grab it this afternoon.

I had a feeling I was being a noob! EEEK!!!

It was not for 4.30 but for 4.31 and IMHO it's not the same issue as it works in admin mode.

Oops, yeah, it was temporarily broken for v4.31 I mean.

Fred wrote:It was not for 4.30 but for 4.31 and IMHO it's not the same issue as it works in admin mode.

Yeah...

It seems to me more to be a Vista "issue" (M$ don't have bugs ) than a PB issue.

I was just wondering if any other Vista people had noticed it or if it was just me!

I have two separate accounts on my Vista system.

The admin account was the first one (from installation etc) I sometimes use that when I need to do major system changes.

My regular account is a non admin one, yeah this does mean that when UAC pops up I'll need to enter the admin pass.

I installed PureBasic as admin (elevation prompt under the normal user).

I regularly code on my normal user account, I have not run into any issues so far, so PureBasic is fully UAC compliant as far as I've noticed.

@Rescator: Sounds like exactly the same installation as my own *was*, and yes other than the Password-Pain(tm) it was OK but I was forever running into Permissions problems and niggles - When I've got my head down I don't want a simple file copy to turn into a Permissions nightmare breaking my train of thought just to copy in a new Library or whatever.

Hence I finally installed (as Administrator) into the Public folder. Hmmmm...

OK just for the record, some findings:

I "chown'd" the Public\PB30\ folder (and all subfolders) to the Limited user. No change in behaviour.

When logged in as Admin, I have a different set of sources Auto-open (and AutoComplete works fine). I wonder if this has nothing to do with permissions at all - I leaning towards a Docs And Settings problem somewhere?

As I said it's more a niggle than a bug or anything and I doubt it's a PB problem, more a Vista one. Just wondered if anyone else had seen it. But thanks for the input anyway guys. If I ever solve it, I'll let you know!

Try this if you haven't already. On the shortcut that you use to start up PureBasic, right click on it, then on the Compatability tab select to 'Run as Administrator' then apply that change. Then for the folder that PureBasic is installed in, right click on it and look at the security and make sure your user has full permissions, if not, log into Vista as the administrator (the first account created when you first install Vista) and grant full permissions to the Purebasic folder.