Please don't mind me chiming in here... but Installing the executables in the Program Files directory is fine... but it is a bad choice for data... always has been!
You don't have to install in root. But there is absolutely no problem in doing so. It is only installing one directory in root... and the limitations on the number of files in the root directory disappeared long long ago. There is no technical reason for it to be a "nono". What I have done here is create a "Programs" directory and install most of my ham stuff there ie C:\Programs\DX... putting all the ham stuff under one directory is tidier and I don't have to worry about write restrictions on the "Program Files" hierarchy. Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Larry Alkoff <labrad...@mindspring.com> > wrote: > >> Jim thanks for the heads up on the many more com ports in DX4Win v8. >> It would have saved me a lot of trouble but when I saw the business >> of requiring Admin mode to install (and run?) and placing DX4W in the root >> directory (both big nonos for me) I lost interest. > > The same issue exists for DX4WIN 7.0x and the Vista/Windows 7 > operating systems. The change in V8 is that by default, DX4WIN > installs at the root (i.e. C:\DX4W802) instead of in the Program Files > directory. Vista/Windows 7 do some strange things when data is in the > Program Files hierarchy. > > 73 - Jim AD1C > ______________________________________________________________ Dx4win mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Dx4win@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
