[Dx4win] Migrating to Win 7 from XP

[Duane Calvin]

You can install it from any directory you like on Win 7 (I elected to put it
in a secondary hard drive since having it in the C:\Programs directory cause
it to not be moved by MS Transfer Wizard and I want to explicitly back it up
now.)  At any rate, all you need to do is to explicitly open the log file
from DX4WIN (File-Open), and once you do that it will know where the log
file is.  I've kept mine in the \Save subdirectory by default so that I know
all the ones I need to hang on to are in one spot.  But the point is that
wherever you choose to save the log file, you can point DX4WIN to it and it
will remember that location next time.  (Put all your logs in the same
subdirectory and you won't have to root around for them when you need to
switch logs.)  Hope that helps.  (Oops, just noticed I duplicated what Jim
had already said much more eloquently - but maybe repetition helps?!)

	Duane 


Duane Calvin, AC5AA
Austin, Texas
www.ac5aa.com  

 

-----Original Message-----
From: dx4win-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:dx4win-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
On Behalf Of Harry Williams
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2012 11:45 AM
To: Jim Reisert AD1C
Cc: dx4win
Subject: Re: [Dx4win] Migrating to Win 7 from XP

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 

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