joe voelkelt wrote: > still have had no luck in getting dxbase 2007 to run on my computer with > windows vista, however i have managed a work around to the problem and that > is to reinstall dxbase 2006 from the cd rom i got when i purchased dxbase > 2006 and dxbase 2006 now works fine no problem at all, but no matter what i > do have not figured out how to get dxbase to get out of the demo mode, i have > tried installing in a new directory, reapplying registration key etc. did e > mail scientific solutions and hope to get cd rom from them with dx base 2007 > and see if that will work. thanks to all for their suggestions and help, will > keep everyone up to date on this problem. joe kl7lf > ______________________________________________________________ > Joe,
I'm no expert on this and I still use DXBase 2005 but when I went to a new machine running Vista I did have a tear-your-hair-out problem for a bit. This may not have anything to do with your issues, but it's offered as an FYI. In my cramped shack I log on an old laptop running XP-Pro and do my QSLing, refdata changing, etc on a desktop in another room where I have more deskspace. I use a LAN to connect the two and normally I do an import from the laptop into the desktop log and then when it is up to date and compacted, I copy it back to the laptop. Maybe not the best way to do it, but it's worked for me until I replaced the desktop with a new Vista machine. I won't bore you with the horrific problems that I've had with the LAN but the file issues I've had might be applicable to your situation. In a nutshell, Vista decides where it's going to save some files and to hell with where you want them. I discovered this when I tried copying back to my laptop the N7WS.mdb file located in C:\Program Files\DXBase 2005 and it wasn't up to date. After a lot of grief I determined that Vista was saving the file at C:\Users\Wes\AppData\Local\Virtual Store\Program Files\DXBase 2005\ . So on the same machine I had two versions of the log, but they weren't the same. This is true of refdata.mdb and some others. My registration file is where I think it should be, but maybe you should double check this. Good luck, Wes
