[Dxbase] Vista issue...

[Neal Campbell]

Hi Ron

When you uninstall DXBase on Vista/Win7, it leaves the DXB2007.ini file in
the Windows directory (usually C:\Windows). This file has the link to the
now non-existant program directory.

So, whenever you uninstall DXBase on a Vista or Win7 system, be sure and go
to the Windows Directory and remove the DXB2007.ini file, otherwise it will
get lost looking for that file.

Also make sure you set the 'Run as Administator' checkbox in the
DXB2007.exe's compatibility property.
73
Neal Campbell
Abroham Neal Software
www.abrohamnealsoftware.com
(540) 645 5394






On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Ron Stordahl AE5E <
ronn5in-dxbase2 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> After successfully uninstalling DXBase2007 from c:\Program Files and
> reinstalling into c:\Amateur Radio on my Vista laptop I felt sufficiently
> brave
> to help a friend do the same thing on his Vista ham computer.
>
> As I should have known it would be harder than I expected, however I
> finally did
> get it running, although not completely.
>
>
> When doing the install I substituted "Amateur Radio" for "Program Files"
> when
> the installer asked for the destination.  All seemed ok, but when doing the
> configuration I find that for Tools>Options>User Options>Radio 1 I get the
> error
> message "C:\Program Files\Scientific Solutions\DXbase 2007\Radios.ini" was
> not
> found.  Of course there is no such folder.  I can find no way to cause the
> program to look instead in c:\Amateur Radio\Scientific......  I did change
> the
> notification on startup to c:\amateur radio\scientific... and it finding
> 'CALL.mdb' and refdata.mdb properly.
>
> Also for tabs TNC and Internet I get a message box with text "System Cannot
> find
> the file specified...."  However in these cases you can dismiss the error
> box
> and at least in the case of the Internet tab it works.  I don't have a TNC
> in
> use so I can't say if it would work after dismissing the error box.
>
> I have not tried other functions such as labels, so I can't say how they
> may
> work.
>
> So there seems to be somewhere c:\program files\scientific.. fixed
> somewhere in
> the install.  I didn't feel like going into the registry...maybe there are
> some
> left overs in there.
>
> Ron, AE5E
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