On October 20, 2017 4:16:07 AM HST, Harold Lane <hallane@earthlink.net> wrote:
How could simply unzipping files into a folder, then *moving that folder* mess up something in the files themselves...? It doesn't mess up anything in the files. The problem is caused because Windows created a registry key that included where the *original* executable was located -- likely when Jonathan's Fractint SDL was first run in the *original* directory.
Knute ran CCleaner to try and solve this exact problem, and CCleaner found that the key no longer matched the folder that the .EXE was in, and complained, which allowed me to see the key problem. This key mismatch explains why you can move the zip file -- but not the exe -- to another folder, *especially* if you have already run Fractint.
Ah, ok, a Windows-only problem. Thanks, Hal. Glad I'm running Linux instead! -- David W. Jones gnome@hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community http://dancingtreefrog.com Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail.