[Dx4win] Migrating to Win 7 from XP

[Harry Williams]

Well I got dx4win to run on the windows 7 machine but I had to copy the 
directory from the xp machine and put it in the same directory on win 7 
machine....program files. If I put it under c:\ upon execution of dx4win it 
would open a window saying it could not find the log and dx4win ended up 
minimized in the task bar. From that point I could not open it. So whats the 
downside of having it installed in program files on win 7 and also is there 
any downside in installing by copying the directory across and not using the 
install process which puts entries in the registry.

Thanks,
Harry
W0LS

-----Original Message----- 
From: Jim Reisert AD1C
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 5:11 PM
To: Harry Williams
Cc: dx4win
Subject: Re: [Dx4win] Migrating to Win 7 from XP

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?

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