Monster Builder problem- all my powers have disappeared

[ExploderWizard]

Err... that's not a weird location. That's where they're supposed to be.

User files should be saved under the current user's 'Documents' or 'My Documents' directory by default. Application configuration files (and anything else a program needs to modify, but users don't) should be in the current user's 'Application Data' directory. Since standard users can't write to Program Files (and Win7 or Vista will pop up UAC warnings by default even if you're running as an Admin, which you should not be doing), nothing should go there that's going to change at any point except installation and/or installing patches. This has been in the standard Microsoft application guidelines since at least 2000.

Its weird compared to my GURPS chargen software which I can install to a location other than program files. Characters are stored in thier own folder within the software folder.

 

[Ktulu]

Weird. I haven't seen any issues with the builder, so far. Might take a second look.

 

[drothgery]

Its weird compared to my GURPS chargen software which I can install to a location other than program files. Characters are stored in thier own folder within the software folder.

The thing is, if your software does that, then if you're running as a non-admin user in any version of Windows, or even as an admin user in Vista or Windows 7, you will get prompted for credentials every time you have to save a character. This is a bad thing. The special folders in Windows are special for a reason.

 

[ExploderWizard]

The thing is, if your software does that, then if you're running as a non-admin user in any version of Windows, or even as an admin user in Vista or Windows 7, you will get prompted for credentials every time you have to save a character. This is a bad thing. The special folders in Windows are special for a reason.

Always run as an admin since post 2K pro. MS had great flexibility there with user permissions and chucked it all for limited/ admin