From: Branco Medeiros on
vovan wrote:
> My VB 2008 application uses System.IO.File.Exists method. On XP there is no
> problem with accessing file located on the server. On Windows 7 the file is
> not found.
> The same problem with
> file_reader = New System.IO.StreamReader(strSourse & "\InitialData.txt")
> where strSource is the string containing the path to the file on the server.

I suppose you probably tried that already, but here it goes anyway:
run your application as administrator (right click it's icon and
select "Run As Administrator" from the popup menu). Report back the
result here.

HTH.

Branco.