Bill, We have had a couple reports from customers who have installed DXbase 2007 on Vista. The reports say that it installs and runs fine although the database we install does not get put in the "preferred" folder under Vista. Doesn't seem to really matter. However, we have been told that the DXbase help file system will not run. When attempting to access any help functions, a Windows message is displayed stating that the .hlp file format is no longer supported in Windows.... contact the software developer.... This was a known issue which Microsoft has a Knowledge Base article about. According to the status on this, MS had planned to make available for download to Vista customers a .dll that would allow the .hlp system to work. MS will not allow software developers to distribute this .dll. I cannot find any indication that such a .dll is available from MS at this time and don't know if they intend to follow through with delivering this.
Since we have not installed or used VISTA ourselves, we cannot and do not make any claims that VISTA supports the running of DXbase. What we mention here is based on feedback from others and what we found by searching the web. Regards, Jack ----- Original Message ----- From: "FireBrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "DXBase List" <[email protected]>; "Writelog List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 3:44 PM Subject: [Dxbase] anybody using Vista yet > Just curious. > Any DXBase or Writelog users running these programs under Vista? > > > > ----------------------------------------------------- > Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young. > ----------------------------------------------------- > > Bill H. in Chicagoland > webcams at http://76.16.160.118:8080/ > weather at http://hhweather.webhop.org > > ______________________________________________________________ > Dxbase mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] >
