Window 10 RPC emu Boot not updating

Hi

After setting up RISCPCemu on someones Windows10 laptop, I cannot get Boot,Choices to update.

i’ve set the !boot directory to full access

Locked No
Owner read Yes
Owner Write Yes
Public read Yes
Prublick write Yes
Recurse ticked.

For example I cannot change the screen settings, apps to boot on start up.

Using RISC OS 5 test build.

I only have access to that computer about once a week for about an hour.

The people it is for have never used RISC OS before.

I bet it is something so simple when I get the answer I will hit my head for being so stupid.

Thanks.

If you utilised the Windows installer, use the zip file instead; placing the folder at C:\RPCEmu

The Windows installer version left me with a similar but different issue (read-only files), by using the zip file version the problem I had disappeared.

Also, unzip all RISC OS files like !Boot in RISC OS.

Also, unzip all RISC OS files like !Boot in RISC OS.

This is a very important principle not well understood by users of other OSs.

RISC OS uses, instead of file extensions, a bit (a few bits!) in the file to tell it what the filetype is/should be.

To preserve these data, you must always de-archive files under RISC OS itself!

Otherwise stuff will have the wrong filetypes and just not work!

It has been said many times before, but needs repeating periodically on dofferent threads of the forum!

The problem is that Windows doesn’t like programs which write to their own installation folder. Since Windows Vista (AIUI) the writes will get redirected to one of the folders in C:\Users\<foo>\AppData, and depending on how the app accesses its files it may or may not see them there.

Changing the RPCEmu installation folder permissions so that it’s owned by the user account should allow it to modify its files; although you may also need to manually clean out the relevant AppData folder to avoid any confusion.

https://superuser.com/a/1141616

It has been said many times before, but needs repeating periodically

Now, if the forum software was smart enough to support “sticky” threads….?

Thanks for all the suggestions, unfortuantly they did not bring their laptop with them yesterday, so I could not try them out.

All the RISC OS software was unzipped on RISC OS.