Shaeree Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 (edited) I moved BigBox to a brand-new Windows 10 install earlier. On launch, it hung indefinitely until I killed it and started it "As Administrator." It launches without prompting for elevation since. The workaround's pretty simple, I'll admit, but now I'm wondering... What's it writing to that it needs elevation? Doesn't that make it not really portable? Edited January 15, 2017 by Shaeree Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 If you have it in certain places on your C drive, sometimes you need to do that. It doesn't make it less portable, you can move your entire install to an external, and as long as the paths were relative or your games aren't changing paths, it will work just fine. If it's in a certain location that you need to run as admin, that's Windows fault. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaeree Posted January 15, 2017 Author Share Posted January 15, 2017 (edited) 1 hour ago, SentaiBrad said: If you have it in certain places on your C drive, sometimes you need to do that. It doesn't make it less portable, you can move your entire install to an external, and as long as the paths were relative or your games aren't changing paths, it will work just fine. If it's in a certain location that you need to run as admin, that's Windows fault. You're right--it was 'Windows' fault.' It's in a C:\Games folder I created where 'Authenticated Users' has modify+inherit... But I did copy it from an NTFS partition, and occasionally inheritance doesn't merge the way a person thinks it should during file copies, so I probably had broken inheritance somewhere. Hope that's helpful in case it happens to anyone else. Edited January 15, 2017 by Shaeree Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaeree Posted January 15, 2017 Author Share Posted January 15, 2017 (edited) Butwaitwaitwait. I'm having a logic problem with this--I moved it from somehwere else. It had already been launched. Shouldn't that one-time change it needed to make have already been made, if it was indeed a change inside the LaunchBox folder? Edited January 15, 2017 by Shaeree Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted January 16, 2017 Share Posted January 16, 2017 No, some programs, depending on the location on the Windows install drive, it needs extra permissions. For example,I re-installed a program recently, and I accidentally put it on the C drive, and it was giving me errors. Moving it back to a different drive, it ran better with no errors. Not all programs are the same, but sometimes they have functions that Windows doesn't like on certain drives. They made it a lot more complicated when you use your C drive for stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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