Re: Guide-8 64-bit?

ldjhandm Jan 1, 2010

Cracked it! Your suggestion about the startup file - I checked and found the entry was for the wrong drive (on this laptop)!

Thanks everyone.

Lawrence :-)

--- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, "Owen Brazell" <owen@...> wrote:
>
> Could you be more specific about not working? And where did you copy your
> Guide8 directory to? Remember Vista and Windows 7 really do not like things
> like Guide in their Program Files directory. I just copied mine to
> c:\Guide8. I know you have a very customised version of Guide in your
> startup. Is it possible that something in there is pointing to a directory
> that does not exists?
>
>
>
> Owen
>
>
>
> From: guide-user@yahoogroups.com [mailto:guide-user@yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of ldjhandm
> Sent: 01 January 2010 2:38 PM
> To: guide-user@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [guide-user] Re: Guide-8 64-bit?
>
>
>
>
>
> Hello all
>
> I downloaded the revised setup.exe program. It quickly comes up with a
> message claiming that Guide has installed OK - but actually did nothing. I
> have copied the entire directory but that does not work either. It is a rare
> mystery to me as to what is going wrong.
>
> Lawrence
>
> --- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com <mailto:guide-user%40yahoogroups.com> ,
> Hartwig Luethen <h.luethen@> wrote:
> >
> > Did you try to copy your complete Guide directory (without using the
> > setup program) from a working installation on your new machine and
> > simply run Guide?
> > As Guide does not do anything with the registry, this is my favorite way
> > to port Guide to other computers.
> > Hartwig
> >
> >
> > Am 01.01.2010 10:51, schrieb Arild Moland:
> > > Lawrence,
> > >
> > > have you tried the updated setup program found here:
> > >
> > > http://www.projectpluto.com/setup.htm
> > >
> > > Still a 32-bit program it seems, but worth trying in place of the one
> > > supplied on the DVD.
> > >
> > > Arild :)
> > >
> > > On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Lawrence Harris<
> > > lawrence@> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>
> > >> Sorry - perhaps I did not make this clear enough. I am trying to load
> > >> Guide-8 on
> > >> to a new 64-bit machine under Win-7. The DVD setup program fails with
> the
> > >> error
> > >> message that the version is not compatible with Win-7. I have run
> Guide-8
> > >> on
> > >> Vista and Win-7 on another machine (32-bit) but it would not install on
> the
> > >> 64-bit - hence my query. Clearly others have it running OK (which is
> good
> > >> news
> > >> and what I expected) - so I presume that the original 2001 setup.exe
> > >> program has
> > >> a problem.
> > >>
> > >> regards
> > >>
> > >> Lawrence
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ------------------------------------
> > >
> > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an empty email to:
> > > guide-user-unsubscribe@! Groups Links
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>