[Dxbase] Laptop/processor/operating system?

Sat Aug 14 10:05:39 EDT 2010

-----Original Message-----
From: Neal Campbell [mailto:nealk3nc at gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2010 12:29 AM
To: Peter Dougherty W2IRT
Cc: Crownhaven; DXBase Reflector
Subject: Re: [Dxbase] Laptop/processor/operating system?
Not meaning to be facetious, I really don't see a critical problem
with windows 7 and DXB2007.
If you install it outside of the Program Files directory and manually
copy the Hosts file to the windows/System32/drivers/etc directory all
seems fine here. Is there another issue I am missing?
 [pjd] The issue I ran into with one of the members of this community a
while back was that no matter what he did he kept getting the UAC prompt
whenever he tried to launch the app. If "run as administrator" was selected,
the app never launched, period (it would give any one of about a half-dozen
error codes, none of which I recall at the moment). We installed,
un-installed and re-installed at least a dozen times--never in the Program
Files directory--over the course of about 18 hours and it just never did its
thing the way he'd expected. The user gave up at that point and went back to
XP. That was enough to scare me off doing it on my own box, especially since
I figured v.10 would be out within a year and my XP system was/is stable.
[pjd] Granted his install was the proverbial zebra and mine most likely
would have been smooth but I figured why bother if my machine was otherwise
fine. But for me, I'm comfortable messing with PCs and trying different
configurations and I know my way around an OS reasonably-well. My thought
process is that for those who are outside their own comfort level tinkering
or doing things in a non-standard fashion, XP might be a better option for
running 2k7. But on the whole, getting a modern system with Win7 up and
running would definitely be a big plus and, going forward in computing in
general, would be a better solution.