[Dx4win] My Vista experience

[Paul van der Eijk]

Hi,

I installed Virtual PC 2007 (free download from MicroSoft)
and installed Vista Ultimate under the virtual machine.
(for the time being I have no plans to install Vista on any of
my machines)

When running as administrator, DX4WIN runs fine. I do not get any
error messages etc and the port driver is loaded. As a regular user,
the port driver cannot be loaded. Versions prior to 7.03 would exit
when this happens; I modified the code for version 7.03 to ignore
this error, with the result that access to the LPT port(s) is disabled.

I guess that the experiment worked, because my laptop is 32 bits. If
you run the 64 bits version of Vista, loading the device driver will not
work; even for the administrator.

Will keep you posted,

--Paul



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Paul van der Eijk (KK4HD)
pvandereijk at cox.net
http://www.dx4win.com