Thanks...Ill try those things. Sounds like the uninstall should have removed DXB2007.ini but didn't. Surprisingly I didn't take any such precautions with my laptop yet didn't have the problems.
Hopefully what you suggest will straighten things out...might I have to do a reinstall to recreate DXB2007.ini? Ron ________________________________ From: Neal Campbell <[email protected]> To: Ron Stordahl AE5E <[email protected]> Cc: DXBase Reflector <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, January 19, 2011 8:44:26 PM Subject: Re: [Dxbase] Vista issue... Hi Ron When you uninstall DXBase on Vista/Win7, it leaves the DXB2007.ini file in the Windows directory (usually C:\Windows). This file has the link to the now non-existant program directory. So, whenever you uninstall DXBase on a Vista or Win7 system, be sure and go to the Windows Directory and remove the DXB2007.ini file, otherwise it will get lost looking for that file. Also make sure you set the 'Run as Administator' checkbox in the DXB2007.exe's compatibility property. 73 Neal Campbell Abroham Neal Software www.abrohamnealsoftware.com (540) 645 5394 On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Ron Stordahl AE5E <[email protected]> wrote: After successfully uninstalling DXBase2007 from c:\Program Files and >reinstalling into c:\Amateur Radio on my Vista laptop I felt sufficiently brave >to help a friend do the same thing on his Vista ham computer. > >As I should have known it would be harder than I expected, however I finally did >get it running, although not completely. > > >When doing the install I substituted "Amateur Radio" for "Program Files" when >the installer asked for the destination. All seemed ok, but when doing the >configuration I find that for Tools>Options>User Options>Radio 1 I get the error >message "C:\Program Files\Scientific Solutions\DXbase 2007\Radios.ini" was not >found. Of course there is no such folder. I can find no way to cause the >program to look instead in c:\Amateur Radio\Scientific...... I did change the >notification on startup to c:\amateur radio\scientific... and it finding >'CALL.mdb' and refdata.mdb properly. > >Also for tabs TNC and Internet I get a message box with text "System Cannot find >the file specified...." However in these cases you can dismiss the error box >and at least in the case of the Internet tab it works. I don't have a TNC in >use so I can't say if it would work after dismissing the error box. > >I have not tried other functions such as labels, so I can't say how they may >work. > >So there seems to be somewhere c:\program files\scientific.. fixed somewhere in >the install. I didn't feel like going into the registry...maybe there are some >left overs in there. > >Ron, AE5E >______________________________________________________________ >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
