If you are logged in as you and need to do admin things, right-click and
run as administrator, but never login to an admin session, unless you have
absolutely no choice.
Well, OK, I'll give it a go. Right now I am installing programs etc. to get
this PC to a comparable level to the 1TB or so of stuff I had on the old
one.
I can see that turning off UAC would benefit in some ways, although I don't
mind being asked every time I start a program if it makes my computing safer
when something tries to write to somewhere it shouldn't.
Not really! I know lots of people who like Windows 7, when you compare it
with Vista it has everything going for it.
I agree with you there - Vista on my son's laptop is a pain the nether
regions. Even to him, brought up on Vista.
When you compare it with Linux, it's old hat! Already!
That I don't doubt, although the comment simply makes you sound like the
"anything but what I use is bad" and NIMBY brigade.
I agree, Windows 7 is much better than XP. (Sound of crash from the Dilwyn
office there?) ;-)
C-R-A-S-H...ouch! Norman agreed with me on something?!?!?! ;-)
... If I find a definitive answer (e.g. Jimmy has ideas on what
happened) I'll make sure I document it somewhere for everyone's benefit.
Turn off UAC! ;-)
OK. Will do, but when I have time to do it at my own speed and (low)
confidence levels in what looks to me (as an inexperienced Win7 user) as
something I have to do right or face the consequences of tinkering with
things I shouldn't.
BTW, back to topic, amid all the winding up of Norman, I somehow got QL2K
working. Worst part is I don't know what I did, as it happened at a step
when I made 3 changes so I don't know which of them got it going. Really
strange, I'd understand it if Windows or QL2K gave an error message when
QL2K failed to start. But nothing. It asked for permissions etc, a few
seconds of the circular egg timer then nothing!
I have now got both the 32 bit and 64 bit versions running in their
respective folders. Normally a daft thing to do I suppose, as I'll have to
duplicate copying things into both, but at least I can run both and test
software on both.
UAC still queries when it starts of course (I expect it's because QL2K
writes its log file in the Program Files folder as it starts.) But the
mysterious non-appearance of the program has stopped for some reason.
Probably until the next time I reset the PC.
Jimmy Montesinos has asked me to zip up the content of the QL2K folder and
offered to take a look to see if I've somehow installed it wrong or
something. But first I need to download a 7-zip or something.
To be fair, QL2K is the only program so far I've had these problems with,
and it ain't a program I'll be using regularly.
Dilwyn Jones
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