Problems moving VO to Windows 7 Professional from Win XP machine -revisiting
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From: Robert van der Hulst on 11 May 2010 06:07 Hi Bill, On Mon, 10 May 2010, at 21:25:26 [GMT -0700 (PDT)] (which was 6:25 where I live) you wrote about: 'Problems moving VO to Windows 7 Professional from Win XP machine -revisiting' > Back in Jan 22-27 there was discussion and help in this excellent > forum re my difficulty in getting CAVO2.5b-3 to run under Windows 7. > I tried everything suggested then without success, and have just taken > the suggestion from a thread back in Sep 2002 re exporting all the > registry entries containing 'CAVO25' from old machine and importing > these into the new machine. > Did all that, although some were rejected when trying to import, but > the execution just does a brief flash of some unknown window after > showing splash screen (too quick to grab) and closes! > I have also tried to run the 2.5 patches in case that would resolve > the situation but the Patch program was rejected as being just for 16- > bit!! And I don't know of a suitable alternative. > I have emailed twice to Brian at Grafxsoft (sales(a)grafxsoft.com) - > without acknowledgment or reply. Maybe Brian didn't receive my emails, > so hopefully he will get to see this post? > I was seeking to obtain an original CD or download (rather than my 2.5 > Upgrade CD), hopefully at a reduced price as I am an elderly pensioner > not doing commercial development, and don't need and can't justify > spending full price on the latest bells & whistles version! Visual Objects 2.5 was a CA only product. It is protected with Register-IT copy protection software. You need to install that software too and register the product. If you use the original installation software this should all be taken care of. VO 2.5 CAN RUN on Windows 7. I am running it on my Windows 7 x 64 machine (not for production, but as a reference tool in case someone reports an issue with it). -- Robert van der Hulst AKA Mr. Data VO & Vulcan.NET Development Team
From: Geoff Schaller on 12 May 2010 19:03 Bill. Reinstalling W7 isn't going to help. It is just that a 64 bit registry based application is going to find its keys in the WOW branch of the stack. You may need to copy these down to where VO itself tries to read them. Do you have to stay with 2.5 or can you upgrade? What keeps you at this totally antiquated version? Geoff "Bill Tillick" <wtillick(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:fdbce0bc-b684-46d7-a484-cca72b6e386e(a)m31g2000pre.googlegroups.com: > Robert, > Have done the re-Registering. That doesn't seem to be the problem. > > I do know that VO2.5 can run on Win 7 x 64, from what was said in my > early thread. The b----r of it all is that something undetermined is > fouling it up on my machine and I just can't find out what. I am > considering a full (time-consuming!) reinstall of Win7 in order to > make a totally fresh start. > > Thanks for your suggestion. > Bill
From: Robert van der Hulst on 14 May 2010 02:19 Hi Bill, On Thu, 13 May 2010, at 15:30:51 [GMT -0700 (PDT)] (which was 0:30 where I live) you wrote about: 'Problems moving VO to Windows 7 Professional from Win XP machine -revisiting' > 2. Re my comment about a deal from Brian (who may get to see this?) I > would like a deal such as getting 2.8, presumably including SP3, for > the price of, say, the upgrade from 2.5 or 1.0c - or even less $$$? http://www.grafxsoft.com/2vo28.htm -- Robert van der Hulst AKA Mr. Data Vo2Jet & Vo2Ado Support VO & Vulcan.NET Development Team www.heliks.nl
From: Geoff Schaller on 14 May 2010 05:57
Bill, Hobby status or not... UPGRADE! The cost is small. Honestly. The benefits are huge. Honestly. I suspect you spend more on beer and food than on a VO upgrade so I don't accept the argument about cost. The real issue is that you aren't going to get much help with 2.5 because of its antiquity. I have customers with XP that say they are happy because XP does everything they need. This is like a bicycle owner saying that they don't need a car because their bike does everything they need. Bollocks! Microsoft is running a very amusing IE 8 advertising campaign: 'Would you drink 8 year old milk?' ....so why would you use an 8 year old browser? <g> Geoff "Bill Tillick" <wtillick(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:31e7c6b4-8a16-41d7-b6a4-da6f7f7ade0e(a)h20g2000prn.googlegroups.com: > Geoff, > I don't understand your comment about a "WOW branch of the stack" - > what is that? > Also, wherever the keys are, where exactly does VO expect to "read > them"? > > Thanks for the recommendation to not reinstall W7, it's jut that I > have done so much messing around with various attempt that I thought I > may have generated conflicting entries in the Registry that may have > confused VO or W7?? (I have run CCleaner several times.) > > My reasons for trying to stay with 2.5 are that it does all I want! I > have no major new programs to be developed, I was/am not a > professional developer and long retired anyhow but still enjoy > 'dabbling' and maintaining/enhancing my existing personal programs, > thus the cost is a significant factor. Would love Brian to offer a > deal just so I can continue my decades-long 'love' affair with Clipper > then VO! Having said that, I haven't yet totally discarded buying a > later version. > (I am impressed with free MS Visual Studio/Visual Basic Express > versions but feel somewhat reluctant to tax my ageing brain with a > whole lot of fresh learning - even though it is enjoyable! Much of my > knowledge from VO looks to be transferable, though not the code > itself!!) > > Thanks again for your interest, > Bill |