I went to the Cardisk site and downloaded an update, free of charge. Works fine now on my Vista OS.
Joe Jacob On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Thomas Gubiotti <[email protected]> wrote: > David, > > One thing that might work is running the Cardisc viewer application in > Windows XP mode. Here are some details: > > > http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/using-windows-vista-compatibility-mode/ > > If that doesn't work, you can use a third-party program to convert the > image files from the disc. They're in some weird format, but I used a > Mac program called GraphicConverter to batch convert them all to GIF. > Took a little work to get the pages sorted and numbered, but now I've > got them viewable on my Mac without having to use the Cardisc > application. > > Third option is just to buy a new disc. The newer Cardisc versions > are in PDF format so you don't need to go through all this hassle. > > Good luck. > > Tom > [email protected] > > I have the cardisk version also. But I find it a real problem. For > > one > > thing, to do any work, I have to find the page(s) and print them out > > in order > > to work on the car...my quirk I supposed. The biggest problem is > > when I > > change/upgrade my computer operating system, the cardisk would not > > work. For > > example, I bought the disk when I was using Window xp, now it would > > not work > > on my vista system. The vendor was absolutely no help at all. > > > > If you or anyone has a solution to the OS version problem, please > > let me know, > > or better yet, post it. > > > > Thanks, > > > > David > -- > to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi > or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected] -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected]
