I've got a new computer with Win 7 x64 too! Could VMware or even running win7 and DOS under LINUX be easier? Didn't someone mention using DOSBOX earlier? Does that work in full screen mode? Jon Ong
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Pedersen Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 2:24 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: [Dataperf] Running DP in Windows System 7 x64 Well here are my quick notes on getting DP to work with Win Sys 7 x64 Pro. 1. Make sure your cpu supports hardware virtualization. Both Intel and AMD maintain lists of software that do. 2. Make sure you have 4GB Ram (min) and 8 GB preferable. Goto Microsoft and download Win XP mode & Win Virtual PC. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx I run DP in a network environment. Despite claims that Virtual PC would innately share mapped drives - that didn't work for me. So I mapped the drives: With Z: mapped to my network directory, I had then had to map a network drive from within the windows virtual PC as follows: net use m: \\tsclient\z /persistent:yes I then used the M: drive in the program path, default directory etc. The directory sharing may work better on the local machine, I don't know. Otherwise.. subst? I then setup the printers in the x64 machine and set them up again in the Virtual pc with another net use statement net use lpt1:\\ipaddress\sharename /persistent:yes I then dragged a shortcut from the dp.exe to the virtual client desktop. Voila. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I'm not claiming this is the best way to get DP to work under System 7. But a quick perusal of the archives didn't seem to turn up any quick answers. This method suffers from two small drawbacks: a). You have to run the virtual machine. Autoloading the virtual machine is supposed to happen automagically - but I don't know how to make that happen. b). My drive mapping seems to be using the tsclient - and as such it does not support full screen mode: Windowed only. c). I am somewhat concerned what virtual mode hibernation will do if you have an open record when the machine hibernates - so I'm going to be doing some more testing in the next few days. Comments (or improvements) welcome. Chris Currently running dp with 310MB of data. - more than 500+K records.
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