Problem with running a program from flashdrive

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Published on 2010-06-09T09:35:33Z Indexed on 2010/06/09 9:52 UTC
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I have a USB drive with two partitions in it, one hidden and one normal. I have an application which swaps the memory and runs the flash application in hidden zone.

The problem is that the application works fine on Windows 7 and when run on Win XP, it swaps the partitions but doesn't run the flash applications but just keeps running in the background. I can see it in task manager.

But, when I copy the application to desktop and run, it runs with no glitch.

I was facing the same problem on Win 7 too, but it was running as required when I ran it using "Run in XP mode" and then I applied a SHIM and is running since then as required.

The application is built using VC++ 2008.

What might be the problem?

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Problem with running a program from flashdrive

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Published on 2010-06-09T07:16:01Z Indexed on 2010/06/09 7:53 UTC
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I have a USB drive with two partitions in it, one hidden and one normal. I have an application which swaps the memory and runs the flash application in hidden zone.

The problem is that the application works fine on Windows 7 and when run on Win XP, it swaps the partitions but doesn't run the flash applications but just keeps running in the background. I can see it in task manager.

But, when I copy the application to desktop and run, it runs with no glitch.

I was facing the same problem on Win 7 too, but it was running as required when I ran it using "Run in XP mode" and then I applied a SHIM and is running since then as required.

The application is built using VC++ 2008.

What might be the problem?

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