ldjhandm Jan 2, 2010
--- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, Denis <boucherd@...> wrote:
>
> 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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