[Dxbase] Vista issue...

Thu Jan 20 19:04:11 EST 2011

the other option is to edit the ini files and change the paths to the 
current one
-----Original Message----- 
From: Ron Stordahl AE5E
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 9:48 PM
To: Neal Campbell
Cc: DXBase Reflector
Subject: Re: [Dxbase] Vista issue...
Thanks...Ill try those things. Sounds like the uninstall should have 
removed
DXB2007.ini but didn't. Surprisingly I didn't take any such precautions 
with my
laptop yet didn't have the problems.
Hopefully what you suggest will straighten things out...might I have to do a
reinstall to recreate DXB2007.ini?
Ron
________________________________
From: Neal Campbell <nealk3nc at gmail.com>
To: Ron Stordahl AE5E <ronn5in-dxbase2 at yahoo.com>
Cc: DXBase Reflector <dxbase at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wed, January 19, 2011 8:44:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Dxbase] Vista issue...
Hi Ron
When you uninstall DXBase on Vista/Win7, it leaves the DXB2007.ini file in 
the
Windows directory (usually C:\Windows). This file has the link to the now
non-existant program directory.
So, whenever you uninstall DXBase on a Vista or Win7 system, be sure and go 
to
the Windows Directory and remove the DXB2007.ini file, otherwise it will get
lost looking for that file.
Also make sure you set the 'Run as Administator' checkbox in the 
DXB2007.exe's
compatibility property.
73
Neal Campbell
Abroham Neal Software
www.abrohamnealsoftware.com
(540) 645 5394
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Ron Stordahl AE5E 
<ronn5in-dxbase2 at yahoo.com>
wrote:
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
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