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Just a quick note.  At work we’ve moved to using custom color coded folder icons to differentiate between public information, nondisclosure and the such.  While testing out different icons, I noticed that vista ended up caching them locally.  Which of course just wouldn’t do.

You can find the Icon database at:
%userprofile%\AppData\Local\IconCache.db

%userprofile% , if you havent guessed already, points to the users local profile folder.

These folders and files are hidden by default, you can ether enable viewing hidden files and folders under file options or just browse to the folder via the command prompt (cmd.exe).

Once you can see the file, all you have to do is delete it and either restart explorer.exe or reboot.  What ever your most comfortable with.

I was working on my Parallax kit this evening on my Vista box and found that if you didn’t run the editor as admin and then saved files from inside the program folder, the files don’t actually get saved where you thought it you saved them.  Let me try to reword that, so when the BASIC Stamp Editor is not executed as the administrator and you create files, folders within the application by clicking, File/Save As they are stored in a virtual directory under your user profile.  Not the actual location you think you’re saving to; even though the application shows differently.  Make sense? You can access the files/folders within the program with no problem but if you try to browse to say, C:\Program Files\Ubercool\Application\myfile.txt in Windows Explorer it wouldn’t be there but would actually be located under your user profile.  Its actually a pretty neat solution to deal with the security issues.

Anyways, you can find your files in the “Virtual Store” if you ever need to access them outside of the BASIC Stamp Editor, or any other program I guess.

%userprofile%\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\Parallax Inc\Stamp Editor v2.4.2\
(adjust to your verson or installation folder)

The work around would just not use the Program Files folder as your save point… >.>