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UAC impact on applications not allowed to update c:\program Files\..
If you're running Vista (probably windows 7 as well) and have user account control turned on, then programs are not permitted to modify files under C:\Program Files or C:\Program Files (x86).
If they do so, the modified files appear instead at C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\..
Example:
C:\Users\theboy\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\DipTrace\Lib
C:\Users\theboy\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\WS_FTP