[DUG] Vista Question

[Alan Rose]

Hi, I'm just getting to grips with Vista today and UAC. I see
application data is supposed to be written to the common Appdata folder
which on Vista is c:\programdata. However this folder appears to be a
hidden system folder. Anyone know why this is. Makes it awkward if you
want a user to grab a file for you via explorer. Starting to think I'm
better off creating my own directory off the root directory for
application data.   

Also does anyone use an xml manifest file with their executable for
Vista regarding UAC permissions etc. I've seen an example on the web but
was wondering if I can just copy it and use as is.