EMULE & Bit Comet on Vista

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1st - On emule - I dwonloaded the latest version and installed it- It went
fine until at the end it came out saying that install had some probelms. I
launched it - It looked fine. I connected to servers - Fine

Staretd seraching and downloading - looked fine . Then when i went to open
those files or folders - it gave a big ERROR - even the directories were not
created - Incoming directory where emule uses to store those files were not
created and hence no files? Can someone possibly explain whats going on

2 nd - Bit comet installed fine. When i tried downloading the torrent file .
It said it cant listen on port 7635 or something?

Next i still proceeded with seacrhing torrent files and using bit comet- It
then seemed to work fine- It seemed to donload and all and showed the ticker
and download speed and showed status as complete. Looked into those
directories and nothing was there. The directory was read only - I changed
that to full control. But now it keeps on saying cant listen to port 7635.
COuld somone shed some light on this

Also MS you edit profile on passport redirects to a page not found ?????
 
Simple fix. Go into E-mule and on the storage folder, change it to "my
downloads" create a folder there for your incoming downloads through e-mule.
The architecture of Vista will not allow you to save incoming files into
your program files folder. All you have to do is change the file for your
incoming files to a different folder that is NOT in your program files. I
used "My Downloads" and have not had one problem.

Hope this helps :-)
 
Thank you Gene.

Ok I've tried that. But i was more intrested in the why and whats changed.
Will post if it does work in a while...

"The architecture of Vista will not allow you to save incoming files into
your program files folder." -

Is there something on MSDN or technet that explains this architecture
decision somewhere with details?

Also this could have quite a bit of repurcussions with applications at our
workplace if this is the case. Certainly there are security policies which we
have enabled to allow applications to write to sub directories of Vista. How
does vista control the writing of info/files into its sub directories and can
this be engineered around easily with policies.?

We cant afford to manually clean up thousands of applications on Vista if
this is the case.? Now for one app yes its an easy fix, entreprise wide
deployment will be very diffrent.

Regards
 
You allow emule and p2p applications on a corporate network?

Allowing programs to write to the system folders has always been a bad idea
and poor programming practice. I would start changing them now. It will
probably take a few years but eventually most corporate networks will be
forced to switch to Vista. Here's a starting point for learning how to
program for Vista.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsvista/default.aspx
 
No No - not p2p on corporate network. Was referring to other many apps that
we have

Anyway Kenny, you are right ideally it should not have writen to those
folders. But it does, we have seen it. We have many apps, in the region of
thousands more than 5K siting on our network.

Even one of the latest coporate enterprise app uses .Net 2.0 and creates
dynamic assemblies in program files using reflection has issues.

There will be plenty of others critical apps have been developed and
designed running on win2k for many years now and write shared user data to
program files

What you say in theory sounds nice , but in reality the remediation would be
plenty
 
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