[Elecraft] [K2,K3] CW Skimmer with win 7?

[O. Johns]

Hi,

I think I've found a work-around for CW Skimmer on Win 7.  Not only should you (probably not necessary, but why not?) run the installer as the administrative user, you also have to run the programs that way.  After you do the install, the programs OmniRig.exe and CWSkimmer.exe will be in the directories \Program Files\Afreet\OmniRig and \Program Files\Afreet\CWSkimmer, respectively.  Navigate to the program OmniRig.exe.  (This has to be the actual executable, not an alias or a menu entry).

Right click on the executable.
Navigate to Properties at the bottom of the list.
Click Compatibility tab
Click Change settings for all users  (at bottom of window)
Click to select the radio button Run this program as an administrator
Click OK

Now do the same thing for CWSkimmer.exe
Now it should work OK.  YMMV but this works on my eeePC 1001P with Windows 7 Starter.

When CW Skimmer starts, it starts Omni Rig.  OmniRig talks to your radio via a serial port.  It is useful to start Omni Rig first and get the settings right before you start CW Skimmer.

Windows is growing up, getting almost Unix-like.  Permissions become an issue.

CW Skimmer does what it says it does.  If everyone sent perfect code, CW Skimmer would make perfect copy.  Unfortunately, ... .

73,

Oliver
W6ODJ