My Windows 8.1 system has a Windows/System32, presumably for 32-bit .dlls I would imagine that moving the .dlls from your 64-bit GIMP installation into the System32 folder might not be too successful.
I would also suggest that the disgruntled user doesn't know what they are talking about. Kevin > Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 20:07:16 +0300 > From: alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com > CC: gimp-developer-list@gnome.org > Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] Windows 8.1 > > To be fair, we got one quite disgruntled user recently who said exactly this: > > "This is Windows 8.1, As I already said, your installer puts all the > .dll files in the bin folder. They won't work there. I have to move > all of them to the Windows/System32 folder where they belong." > > Now, as some of team members pointed out, System32 sounds like he's on > Windows 98 (with Windows 95 habits) rather than on 8.1. But is it > correct to out .dll files there? And if it is, why would GIMP not work > then? > > Alex > > On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Partha Bagchi <parth...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yes. > > > > On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 7:59 PM, Guy Sunderland <guysunfish...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> Hi. > >> > >> Simple question: Does GIMP work on Windows 8.1? > _______________________________________________ > gimp-developer-list mailing list > List address: gimp-developer-list@gnome.org > List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list > List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
