Hi folks -- I installed BDS2006 on Vista this week, and everything went quite smoothly. I thought I would share what I did, because I know others will soon be doing the same thing & looking for help. Perhaps this post can help. I began by installing the prerequisites manually, from the first install disk, avoiding problems some have had with the bootstrap utility. So, I simply double clicked on each of these files--in the order listed: dotNetRedist/dotnetfx.exe dotNetSDK/setup.exe dotNetJSharp/vjredist.exe JRE/j2re-1_4_2_06-windows-i586-p.exe MSXML/msxml.msi At this point I restarted my machine, and then clicked on the setup.exe file in the root folder of the first install disk, following the various prompts as they appeared. After installation is complete you'll be prompted to register. To be successful here, first open up a Run As Administrator-level command prompt (e.g., from the Start menu entry for cmd, right click and select 'Run as Administrator'). cd, if necessary, to your \windows\system32 directory. From there type: netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled Proceed with registration, and when you're done go back to the command prompt. Type: netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=normal Now you're ready to install Update 2, assuming you have the file. From the same command prompt, cd to where the update is on your hard drive. If you're using the Professional version of BDS 2006 you'll then type: msiexec /update bds2006_en_pro_upd2.msp The text to type differs slightly for other versions. Finally, you'll be ready to begin installing components and add-ons. Vista may balk a little if you try to install anything in the Program Files folder. Have I missed anything? My simple little applications seem to run fine on Vista, although I would be curious to know the suggested pathnames for installing applications and application data so that things will go smoothly on all Windows versions. That's it. Feel free to add anything. -- Al p.s. My memory and handwriting are both a bit sub-par, so it's possible I confused a "-" and a "_" in my typing above, just as I sometimes mix-up "setup.exe" and "install.exe." You're all smart, though; I'm sure you can figure it out :-) _________________________________________________________________ See what you’re getting into…before you go there http://newlivehotmail.com/?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_migration_HM_viral_preview_0507 __________________________________________________ Delphi-Talk mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk
