Your honor, I forgot to add this statement to my closing argument. :)))))))
Now I rest my case. Steve, N4JQQ On 8/14/2010 9:20 AM, Neal Campbell wrote: > 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 <http://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] > <mailto:[email protected]> > Abroham Neal forums: http:/www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/community/ > <http://www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/community/> > > > > > > On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Peter Dougherty <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > From: Neal Campbell [mailto:[email protected] > <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
