I resisted the change to Win7 for the longest time for that reason but the XP load was becoming increasingly unstable as the months wore on and I had to decide whether to re-load XP clean or go with Seven. I went with 7 and for the most part I'm very happy with my decision to do so. It's a far nicer OS and the benefits clearly outweigh the few downsides. The DX Base install was the part of the conversion I was fearing most but ironically it was the easiest. Just don't try to install it to the Program Files folder, edit the Hosts file using Notepad run as Administrator to edit your cluster list and get the patches necessary to access the older help file and all is good. I did likewise for my other two critical ham apps (N1MM Contest Logger and VE7CC's AR User). I did not have to select compatibility mode either. It runs just nicely in installed as administrator to a non-"program files" directory.
I've also saved myself a lot of worry by installing my .mdb log file to Dropbox so there's no longer a worry about the risk of losing my log should I suffer a drive failure. ----------------------------------- Regards, Peter, W2IRT -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dick Williams Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2010 1:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Dxbase] 64 bit windows problems (and Win7 anyway) So, now I know why I dumped Win 7 off my amateur radio computer and re-installed XP. The nice thing is, I have not had any issues with XP and DXBase (or any other amateur radio related programs either). My "two cents worth" is to keep using XP until all the programs one wants to use are Win 7 compatible without any major installation/programming changes needed by me. Dick K8ZTT -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of george byrkit Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2010 10:33 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Dxbase] 64 bit windows problems (and Win7 anyway) So, there are a number of issues with Vista and Win7. First, if you are using Win7, either 32 or 64 bit, I'd advise browsing to the DXBase exe file, choosing 'properties' on the right-click menu, and putting it into 'XP compatibility mode'. This is likely to help. Keep in mind that neither Vista nor Win7 want you to write into the Program Files dir, or any subdir of it. DXBase 2007 is old enough that it keeps its ini file and databases in its dir in Program Files. So there are a world of issues that await you! So much easier if you were able to keep it on WinXP... Microsoft has published any number of Knowledgebase articles about this. It's all related to their 'UAC' (User Account Control) concept, which means you aren't 'administrator' anymore, even if you are. Try searching for 'Inside Windows Vista User Account Control', by Mark Russinovich, for a discussion of what has changed from XP. Vy 73, George Byrkit, K9TRV ______________________________________________________________ Dxbase mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5598 (20101107) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5598 (20101107) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com ______________________________________________________________ Dxbase mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Dxbase mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
