[Dx4win] Migrating to Win 7 from XP

Jim Reisert AD1C jjreisert at alum.mit.edu
Wed Jul 11 18:11:41 EDT 2012


On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Harry Williams <willisw200 at msn.com> wrote:

> Hi Jim...thanks for the reply. Well the directory location is different...on
> xp it was under program files and win 7 its under c:\ so it can not locate
> the log file.

Easy, just file | Open and navigate to where the log file is NOW.
Then when you exit and restart, all will be good.

Or you can write your preferences to an INI file using the old
version, copy the directorie(s), delete DX4WIN.CFG, then merge that
INI file into your new empty configuration.

 I am not sure where the path info is kept so it errors trying
> to find the log and won't even start up. I think I will try just copying the
> directory over from Xp to Win 7 and try that but if you do that instead of
> regular install aren't you bypassing the Win 7 registry process and will
> that cause other issues?

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Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us


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