[Dxbase] Laptop/processor/operating system?

Sat Aug 14 11:14:07 EDT 2010

Your honor, I forgot to add this statement to my closing argument. :)))))))
Now I rest my case.
Steve, N4JQQ
On 8/14/2010 9:20 AM, Neal Campbell wrote:
> You highlight something that I am not doing on my test machine which 
> is run as non-admin/UAC on. I turn UAC off the minute I install Win7 
> (plus defeat the virtual store stuff) and thats probably why I see 
> none of these problems.
>> 73
> Neal Campbell
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>>>>>> On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Peter Dougherty <w2irt at verizon.net 
> <mailto:w2irt at verizon.net>> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neal Campbell [mailto:nealk3nc at gmail.com
> <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.
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