[Dxbase] Joe. Autolotw ?

[Neal Campbell]

The reason is that the legacy directory usage of DXBase (as well as many ham
programs) stored configuration files in the program directory which is
protected in Vista and Windows 7. In this case, the OS tries to protect the
program directory by making the legacy program think it had updated the
file(s) but it actually updated a hidden version of it in your hidden
appdata folder. Next time that you start DXBase, none of those changes are
applied as they are in the other copy.

Its a major effort to properly reorganize the data used by DXB (some goes in
the appdata folder, some goes in the Program data directory, some goes in
your Documents directory. So thats what will be done in the first release of
version 10.

Some ham program authors have decided its not worth the re-architecting and
are forcing users to stay outside of the current rules from MS. DXBase is
not one of those programs so it will be Vista/Win7 shortly.

73

On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 1:55 PM, <n8dc-8 at comcast.net> wrote:

> I was told that starting with Vista MS has windows taking over any program
> that is installed the c:\program files directory . In doing so it creats a
> bunch of problem with certain programs. For instance I had one hell of a
> time getting the lotw stuff installed on my vista drive and I had to jump
> thru hoops when moving to Win7.. For some reason Microsoft thinks they
> should control what the programs do . I found cases where programs were
> saving files but in reality nothing was happening even though it said the
> files had been saved they were no where to be found or when found had no
> data in them...
> The other thing is having to run as an administrator to get some programs
> to run properly.
> We have been told run DxBase from the C:\dxbase 2007 directory . I had my
> old version in the program files directory and it really makes no difference
> to me where its installed as long as it works.
> New new installer defaults to c:\ so thats where it is.
> Dave N8DC
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Smith" <nd4x at hotmail.com>
> To: dxbase at mailman.qth.net
> Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2011 1:45:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [Dxbase] Joe. Autolotw ?
>
>
> Can someone explain why it is necessary to break directory standards and
> install new versions of DXBase under "C:\DXBASE" instead of the traditional
> and Microsoft recommended "C:\Program Files\xxxx"?
>
> I really hate to start cluttering up the traditional directory structures.
>
> Thanks
>
> Paul - ND4X
>
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