Do not select any compatibilities, not needed. Just check the "Disable
Themes" in any of the Guide.exe icons properties

Denis

ldjhandm wrote:

> Hi Bill
>
> The two remaining problems I have previously known how to fix - but I cannot recall, and I cannot find a reference either!
>
> 1 - the icons are spread out a lot; (yes I know this one was only a few weeks back!). I checked the 'compatibility' options on the desktop shortcut but any change causes the UAC to kick violently!
>
> 2 - I have modified 'startup' to include c:\Guide8;e: with e: being the DVD drive. With Guide-8 disk2 in d: drive it still only sees the listing for e: when I try to install from disk2. When I edit to see only e: (the DVD drive) it shows the right stuff but ignores the 'install to hard drive' option. I know there is a simple fix for this but cannot find it in the manual.
>
> Please note that the link to the online manual on the site is dead.
>
> TIA
>
> Lawrence
>
> --- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, Bill J Gray <pluto@...> wrote:
>> Hi Lawrence, all,
>>
>> Glad to hear the 'copy it all over and point to the right
>> folders' method got things going for you. It's a bit strange
>> that 'setup32' failed, though.
>>
>> There's no 64-bit version yet... probably not for a while;
>> the 32-bit version appears to work quite well on 64-bit systems.
>> Though one does need to use the revised (32-bit) 'setup',
>> as Arild mentioned. (The original 'setup' was -- prepare to
>> recoil in horror! -- a 16-bit program, from the days of Windows
>> 3.1. Since it worked Just Fine, I had no particular reason to
>> move it to 32 bits. When Vista came out, I got reports of it
>> failing, so I made the 32-bit 'setup.exe' and posted it.)
>>
>> Owen and Hartwig are correct: you _can_ just copy the entire
>> Guide folder over to a new machine. This spares one the need
>> to configure Guide on your new box (lat/lon and time zone settings,
>> data shown, limiting magnitudes, colors, and so forth).
>>
>> 64-bit software has some benefits for very memory-intensive
>> programs. (The obvious example being one that can use more than
>> 4 GBytes of RAM: a 32-bit program simply can't do that.) Guide
>> isn't at all memory-intensive, however, so I don't expect it to
>> gain anything by going to 64 bits.
>>
>> It also seems to me as if math-intensive software might benefit
>> from going to 64 bits, but nothing I've read supports that idea.
>>
>> -- Bill
>>
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