Hi Dan,
On 10/06/12 12:43, Bill Arnold wrote: > To be sure, the relief goes much deeper. This underlying matter of > great concern was the suspicion there may be basic problems running > VFP9 on Win 64 bit OS's If you had asked this question earlier, Bill, I would have reassured you earlier! <g> My former partner (I've been officially retured for 8 years now) has over 20 installations of his system in the US and Canada, many of them on Windows 7 64-bit. In fact, almost all Win 7s we've encountered are 64-bit. He has had no problems with the 64-bit aspect at all. Yes, we do see the same problems we always see when a user buys a new machine - the IT guy inadvertently changes the server mapping, they forgot to specify a 'temp' directory, etc. etc., but from Win 7-64 nary a peep. BTW, we avoided a fair number of potential Win 7 hassles by the fact we have never installed in the Program Files directory (ref. Doug Hennig, Win 7 introduced some weird 'virtualization' there). Anyway, if anything Win 7 corrected several problems we had had before. -------------------------------------------------- Glad to hear from you. Hey, not a bad way to spend retirement, doing what you enjoy doing in your own time and space. I did have some reassurance going in, but then hit that snag and the 1st thing I thought was "uh oh - could I have hit a 64 bit problem?" The installation has always gone smoothly many time before this machine, so I had high confidence it in. In fact, my own machine is Win 7, but it's 32 bit (I actually try to avoid the 'bleeding edge', so figured to give 64 bit time to settle down, but this customer didn't ask first :) We see really small businesses with old system, XP and Vista mostly, but now Win 7 is getting more popular - and that's very good. I do agree that it's the best Windows yet. Yes, I learned about avoiding "program files" the hard way, and now require installation into the root folder, but it doesn't have to be on C: Better this way because now the doc matches the required installation folders and fully qualified file names are reasonably short and sweet. Dan _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
