You highlight something that I am not doing on my test machine which is run as non-admin/UAC on. I turn UAC off the minute I install Win7 (plus defeat the virtual store stuff) and thats probably why I see none of these problems.
73 Neal Campbell Abroham Neal Software www.abrohamnealsoftware.com (540) 645 5394 NEW PHONE NUMBER Amateur Radio: K3NC Blog: http://www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/blog/ DXBase bug reports: email to [email protected] Abroham Neal forums: http:/www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/community/ On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Peter Dougherty <[email protected]> wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: Neal Campbell [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2010 12:29 AM > To: Peter Dougherty W2IRT > Cc: Crownhaven; DXBase Reflector > Subject: Re: [Dxbase] Laptop/processor/operating system? > > Not meaning to be facetious, I really don't see a critical problem > with windows 7 and DXB2007. > > If you install it outside of the Program Files directory and manually > copy the Hosts file to the windows/System32/drivers/etc directory all > seems fine here. Is there another issue I am missing? > > [pjd] The issue I ran into with one of the members of this community a > while back was that no matter what he did he kept getting the UAC prompt > whenever he tried to launch the app. If "run as administrator" was > selected, > the app never launched, period (it would give any one of about a half-dozen > error codes, none of which I recall at the moment). We installed, > un-installed and re-installed at least a dozen times--never in the Program > Files directory--over the course of about 18 hours and it just never did > its > thing the way he'd expected. The user gave up at that point and went back > to > XP. That was enough to scare me off doing it on my own box, especially > since > I figured v.10 would be out within a year and my XP system was/is stable. > > [pjd] Granted his install was the proverbial zebra and mine most likely > would have been smooth but I figured why bother if my machine was otherwise > fine. But for me, I'm comfortable messing with PCs and trying different > configurations and I know my way around an OS reasonably-well. My thought > process is that for those who are outside their own comfort level tinkering > or doing things in a non-standard fashion, XP might be a better option for > running 2k7. But on the whole, getting a modern system with Win7 up and > running would definitely be a big plus and, going forward in computing in > general, would be a better solution. > > > ______________________________________________________________ Dxbase mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
