dmxlights Posted September 9, 2015 Share Posted September 9, 2015 I have upgraded from windows 8.1 to windows 10 and have found out that windows 10 does not let programs like MagicQ PC store anything the programs folder. If anyone is looking for the files of chamsys ie show files or head files they will be here C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\ChamSys Ltd\MagicQ PC\show Other software also stores files in C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\ Hope some find this useful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alistermorton Posted September 9, 2015 Share Posted September 9, 2015 That's been in windows for a long time - you needed to have local admin rights to write to the program folder. It sounds like it's been tightened up. Makes sense, even if it sems a bit of a faff.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timsabre Posted September 9, 2015 Share Posted September 9, 2015 That's been in windows for a long time - you needed to have local admin rights to write to the program folder. It sounds like it's been tightened up. Makes sense, even if it sems a bit of a faff.. This was the same in Windows 7 and 8, unless you turned off UAC things couldn't write to the Program Files folder... however the difference is that in 10 they have changed UAC so that if you turn it to "Off" it doesn't actually turn it off. You have to hack the registry to turn it off completely and then a lot of native windows apps like Edge, calculator etc don't work.But useful info, I didn't know about the "virtualstore" folder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alistermorton Posted September 9, 2015 Share Posted September 9, 2015 Yes, VirtualStore is worth knowing about. A bit of file system redirection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmxlights Posted September 9, 2015 Author Share Posted September 9, 2015 I did not know about it myself on till I went looking for the PDF that Magic VIS creates. I have a Windows 7 Laptop with UAC turned on and MagicQ still stores it show files in the main folder with program files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alistermorton Posted September 9, 2015 Share Posted September 9, 2015 Possibly you are running as a local admin (which most people running as a single user often are) so you can get away with that in W7. In a corporate install, where you aren't normally a local admin, you wouldn't be able to write arbitrary files to the Program Files and Program Files (x86) tree. Similar to how, on Linux you normally have to run magicQ as root or a root equivalent user because it needs some privileged access. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tow Posted September 9, 2015 Share Posted September 9, 2015 If UAC is on, you may think files are being written/updates in the Program Files folder, but the 'live' copy is in the VirtualStore. As VirtualStore is in the User's folder, the fun and games start when another user runs a program which stores data in the Program Files folder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davemiles871 Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 There are a couple of things here based on my experience with this so far. I upgraded from Windows 7 Pro 32-bit and tried to run MagicQ (1.6.6.8) which was already installed. This appeared to work inasmuch as the program launched, but I was unable to save anything (even launching as administrator). It also turned out that I couldn't drive any fixtures, the USB/DMX dongle seemed to get initialised at program start but nothing happened at all out in the big DMX world. Fortunately I had a backup image of W7 so was able to revert and all is once again well. I upgraded a Windows 7 Pro 64-bit and did a clean install of 1.6.6.9 (provided to get a copy of the latest Src 4 Lustre 2 heads file), and this didn't work at all. It fails with "MQQT has stopped working". No-one has yet been able help. I have logged a call and am awaiting progress. Currently I would stick with whatever you have, as there are certainly some issues. D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smalljoshua Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 I upgraded 8.1 to 10 without Chamsys installed, downloaded the most recent stable (about a week ago) and ran a corporate show off it no issues (4 universes over artnet, 40 fixtures). Josh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jameschamsys Posted October 1, 2015 Share Posted October 1, 2015 Hi All, I've upgraded both Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 machines in the office here to Windows 10 with MagicQ already installed and not had issues with MagicQ running after the install, although I was running current Beta versions at the time and not the Stable v1.6.6.8. We are just about to release a new stable v1.7.0.0 shortly, which will replace the current stable v1.6.6.8 was has been out since before Windows 10 was officially released. James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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