Charlie, the Virtual PC you're using, is this the same Virtual PC that Microsoft recently released so that people having Vista and older OS's on their desktop could switch back and forth via virtual PC?
I haven't installed it yet and was wondering how well it works. Roger At 06:40 PM 3-1-2007 -0500 Charlie Weber wrote: >I installed Vista and FMP 8.5. FMP started ok but layout and relationship >graph screens go black when I click on them. Creating tables & fields seems >to work ok, as do queries and printing. Solved the problem by installing >Virtual PC on my machine and installing XP and FMP to run on the virtual >machine. I can't print from it because the virtual platform does not find >any USB ports. If you have a printer that uses a printer port, you should be >ok. With Virtual PC you can have both operating systems running at the >same time and it is very easy to move back and forth between them. I use >the XP version for everything but printing and then drag the file over to >Vista to print. A minor inconvenience. The database is in the development >stage and is not used for production. In a production setting it would be >better to wait for the Vista certified edition of FMP. > >Another possibility is to set up a dual boot machine, installing the older >OS first. This solution is not as convenient as you can only use one system >at a time. > >Charlie ------------------------------------------------- Tune into my station at: http://www.live365.com/stations/333303?play WAR HAS NEVER SOLVED ANYTHING, except ending slavery, facism, communism, Nazism.... Practice safe eating - always use condiments If we are what we eat, then I'm easy, fast, and cheap Without geometry, life is pointless.
