Re:How About a Story? (Score 1)

Depending on how much effort you're willing to put into maintaining a nice SOE/MOE, there is a solution for your woes. Turn the normal install into a proper MSI. This way, the MSI will repair any missing files or registry settings that a user requires to run the app. You can even change and set permissions on the main install directory it creates in the Program Files directory if you require write access. Or just give it write permissions to the save location folder. You can even take it a step further if you have an old computer lying around that you can set up as a RIS server and an AD server so you can even do deployment if you have enough computers in your home network to make it worth your while. There are lots of very expensive, and also free MSI creators. Once you've created it, my editor of choice to manually edit is Microsoft Orca. It is lightweight and very basic but it does exactly what you ask it to do.