[Dxbase] Vista issue...

Wed Jan 19 21:34:01 EST 2011

After successfully uninstalling DXBase2007 from c:\Program Files and 
reinstalling into c:\Amateur Radio on my Vista laptop I felt sufficiently brave 
to help a friend do the same thing on his Vista ham computer.
As I should have known it would be harder than I expected, however I finally did 
get it running, although not completely. 
When doing the install I substituted "Amateur Radio" for "Program Files" when 
the installer asked for the destination. All seemed ok, but when doing the 
configuration I find that for Tools>Options>User Options>Radio 1 I get the error 
message "C:\Program Files\Scientific Solutions\DXbase 2007\Radios.ini" was not 
found. Of course there is no such folder. I can find no way to cause the 
program to look instead in c:\Amateur Radio\Scientific...... I did change the 
notification on startup to c:\amateur radio\scientific... and it finding 
'CALL.mdb' and refdata.mdb properly.
Also for tabs TNC and Internet I get a message box with text "System Cannot find 
the file specified...." However in these cases you can dismiss the error box 
and at least in the case of the Internet tab it works. I don't have a TNC in 
use so I can't say if it would work after dismissing the error box.
I have not tried other functions such as labels, so I can't say how they may 
work.
So there seems to be somewhere c:\program files\scientific.. fixed somewhere in 
the install. I didn't feel like going into the registry...maybe there are some 
left overs in there.
Ron, AE5E 