In message <D53A062D159E4DC885F46D7B60517A45@AnnPC>, Dilwyn Jones
<[email protected]> writes
Hi Dilwyn,
I see you are finally getting along with PC & Windows, and not breaking
it too much ... :-)
Windows 8, or whatever name it gets, is currently in development. So,
maybe that will sort out all your woes ... ?
It is looking like it will be based on the 'touch screen' gestures, that
have now become common with mobile phones, ipads, etc, so that there
will a synergy (well, in theory if M$ can ever achieve that).
Either it goes this way as one OS, or a split may occur whereby the 'old
tec' of PC's will have a different OS or variant.
I have got it to run now in "one-off" mode. Ensure your user account is
Administrator. Right click on the QL2K.EXE or QL2K-x64.EXE file, it
says the file originated on another computer (or some message like
that) and it is BLOCKED. Click on UNBLOCK, it will now run. But next
time you start the program, it is BLOCKED again.
I had a look at the QL2K.LOG (which I have sent to Jimmy, author of
QL2K) and there doesn't seem to be anything wrong, although Jimmy will
know better than me how to interpret the results and look for a clue in
the file.
Someone kindly sent me a known working version from their 64-bit
Program Files folder. I tried this and got exactly the same results, so
there is definitely a setting on this machine that ensures the program
is BLOCKED. I have run a virus check on it, nothing detected.
People like Norman might expect a rant from me about Windows 7, but
don't fall off your Linux box, Norman, I am going to make an earth
shattering announcement: _*I like Windows 7*_. [Distant sound of a
crash from the Dunbar IT office]
Yes, it will take me a while to get used to the differences (e.g. the
START menu), but this computer is so much more stable and crash-free
than the old XP PC.
Anyway, I'll learn from the QL2K experience no doubt! QL2K on my
machine is more for testing purposes than day-to-day QLing (for which I
use QPC2 or Q-emuLator if I need QDOS).
Thanks for trying to help everyone, the ql-users list at its best once
more. 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.
Dilwyn Jones
-----Original Message----- From: Lee Privett
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 1:19 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] QL2K on Windows 7
I had this problem awhile back with the same request, alas no solution
presented itself, save running in administrator mode
On 22 Aug 2011, at 20:16, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
I am having some problems getting QL2K build 101 to work on Windows 7
64 bit. I installed the full build, then added the update files for
each version until the most recent.
I have installed the 64-bit Windows version QL2K-x64.exe and when I
try to run this I get a brief flash of the round egg-timer icon then
nothing, no error, no nothing. It just fails to start.
I can of course get the 32-bit version to work on Windows XP OK. I
also got QPC2 and Q-emuLator working OK on both systems of course.
Anyone with any experience of installing the 64-bit version with any
handy hints and tips for the installation?
Dilwyn Jones (breaking [in] a Windows 7 64 bit PC)
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