Thanks for the Info! Your suggestion was exactly right. Vista no longer allows anyone (or anything) to write to the root of C: Changing the Net Dir to C:\Temp fixed the problem.
One puzzle for me: I setup the BDE so that anyone could use it, but whenever a new user tries to run the BDE, it fails and I have to create a new Idapi32.Cfg file for that user. When I look in the BDE folder, I only see one copy of this file, so I don't know where the other copies go. Once I do that, the user can run my program without problems....New OS's are such fun...;-/ Tom Nesler -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cosmin Prund Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 11:14 AM To: Borland's Delphi Discussion List Subject: RE: Problems while creating/running apps for Vista I think you need to change the temp folder for the installation, after the BDE has installed. It goes something like this. You go to Control Panel, open the applet, change the temp folder to something you know BDE has the right to write (I used C:\Temp and gave everyone permission to write there). You click whatever button is required to apply the change. The control panel applet hangs. You close it from Task Manager and subsequently your BDE applications work :-) This worked for me. It's in a working part of a program so it hasn't been touched for a very, very long time (if it aint broke don't fix it). It's now time to change as I don't like the instructions I just gave. -- Cosmin Prund > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Nesler, Thomas J > Sent: 23 iulie 2007 16:26 > To: Borland's Delphi Discussion List > Subject: RE: Problems while creating/running apps for Vista > > Hello! > > Thanks for the tips! I was wondering, does anyone know about a website > or links to a website that chronicles problems with running > applications > on Vista? I am trying to run an old BDE/Paradox App and I am getting > the "AppCrash" error but no details as to what exactly is going wrong. > The MSI that installed the BDE ran fine and I can run the BDEAdmin > program Ok. > > Tom Nesler > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Irwin Scollar > Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 10:41 AM > To: delphi@elists.org > Subject: Problems while creating/running apps for Vista > > > I had a number of problems in porting my apps to Vista. > > 1) Help files for all applications had to be translated to HTML > (.chm) format, since Vista doesn't support the old (.hlp) format > without problems even when the updated version is downloaded and > installed by the user. > > 2) Rights have to be set correctly by the installation program on the > installation directory if anything is to be written there by > non-administrative users. > > 3) Nothing must touch anything but the Current_User key in the > registry except at installation time by a user with administrative > rights. > > 4) Ini files must only be created and written to on directories to > which a non-administrative user has appropriate rights. Nothing can > be written to the Windows directory and to the partition on which it > resides without Vista either objecting or blocking the write. > > The ($SETPEFLAGS $20} option for addressing more than 2GB memory in > the .dpr under D7 caused a crash under Vista if the physical > address space is greater than 2GB. > > Vista x64 has it's own problems, primarily if pointers are typecast > to integer and the machine has more than 2GB of physical memory. > Cardinals had to be used instead for pointer arithmetic. But this > applied to XP x64 too. > > There are lots more, but those were the main changes I had to make in > my apps in Delphi 7. I didn't attempt to get Delphi 7 itself running > under Vista. If anyone has any experience with that, please describe > your experience, especially if you used MS's KB932246 two > compatibility routines for x32 and x64 Vista systems. > > Irwin Scollar > > _______________________________________________ > Delphi mailing list -> Delphi@elists.org > http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi > _______________________________________________ > Delphi mailing list -> Delphi@elists.org > http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> Delphi@elists.org http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> Delphi@elists.org http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi
