Joe, The installation of DXbase, whether from a CD, or from a download version, has nothing to do with trial mode being present or absent. Trial mode is controlled by the presence or absence of the registration in your registry. So, if you start DXbase and it says you are in trial mode, then this is happening because your registration has not been successfully applied and is not present in your pc's registry. It has nothing to do with the installation of DXbase itself. So, trying to install/reinstall etc.... trying different installation directories, etc... is not going to have any effect on whether DXbase is in trial mode or not.
To review: 1. When you install from the CD, or from the download version, the software is identical. We provide a download version for those who want the software quicker than if they must wait for us to create and mail a CD. Additionally, you save some bucks if you use the download version. 2. When you install DXbase, it is in trial mode until you successfully apply the registration which is provided to you as a .zip file in an email, or if you ordered the CD version then the registration is contained as a .reg file on a 3.5" floppy disk. 3. It doesn't matter whether you apply the registration and then install DXbase, or vice versa. 4. After installing DXbase, it will be in trial mode until the registration has been successfully applied. 5. After the registration has been successfully applied, DXbase will automatically revert to a registered version that allows you to select you own database. To apply the registration: You MUST be logged on to your pc as the Administator when using Vista. To the best of our knowledge, when applying the registration under Vista 32bit version, the following procedure works fine: 1. Copy the .zip file attachment to a folder on your hard drive. 2. Turn off any anti virus programs that may be running. 3. Unzip the .zip file from your hard drive. 4. You will now see that there is a .reg file present. 5. Double click this .reg file with your mouse. 6. Windows will ask if it is ok to place info in your registry. 7. Answer Yes. After doing this, when you start DXbase, it will no longer show trial mode and you will now be forced to select your own .mdb which by default is named yourcall.mdb, where yourcall is your callsign that you entered during the installation of DXbase. Regards, Tammy ----- Original Message ----- From: "joe voelkelt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 2:32 AM Subject: [Dxbase] dxbase2007 and windows vista 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 ______________________________________________________________ Dxbase mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected]
