08-05-2022, 05:06 AM
Quote:I just wrote a 3-line test file and got a message from AVG (my virus scanner) that it had removed it because it was infected with Win64:wormX-gen [wrm]
Saw the above after typing the rest of this entry. The OP should "whitelist" the entire QB64 directory as it says on first run of the IDE. But I don't know how to do that.
Soon M$ won't allow anybody to save anything to the user's directory neither! It's been almost 20 years of Vista+ that once in a while somebody throws a tantrum because there still exists installers that must put everything into "Program Files" even though that name has a space and even though M$ wants to take over a good portion of the home disk.
I came to dislike Windows7 intensely moments after I purchased some cheap Sony laptop about ten years back. Decided to save all my data files, and folders all children of one folder which was a child of "C:\Users\Documents". The "Library" trash from File Explorer was a great influence on me, really desired to use something else to copy, rename, delete etc. regular files.
Some people are writhe to put EXE and DLL files in areas other than "Program Files" which is the reason why they cry foul about Windows. This is caused by installers for the most part, and some of them are a black box that one has to trust... even... a little bit... to see if there's an "Install" button in which it finally creates directories and forces the OS to add to its mile-long hideous text file even further. Heck I used to be somebody who religiously wanted to put music application plug-ins into one area of the hard disk because the plug-in standard owner said so. But eventually it became a giant mess even before I started operating on a different computer as I've revealed above.
Also have to love those "educators" that brag that programs and data files for Linux could be placed "anywhere in the system". Yes except "/usr", "/etc", "/tmp", "/mnt" and places like that. Just try to install and use Wine as "root" user -- I'm not sure now but I think "winetricks" warns against doing it.
Once I had the same problem as the OP with Sound Forge audio editing program, the basic version. It refused to overwrite-save a wave file that was edited which had metadata because it didn't know what to do with that extra data. It angered me very much although I was able to save such a file under a different name.