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A5V6 and WinVista

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    A5V6 and WinVista

    Has anyone had any success running A5V6 in Windows Vista? I installed Vist build 5384 and then A5V6. On initial startup none of the kernel print drivers in A5 would load. I patched it to the latest version and now am getting an unhandled exception error. Haven't yet tried A5V7.
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    We have not tested V6 with Vista and do not intend to. However the print driver issue is not surprising, as V6 uses a kernel-mode driver. There is a workaround available if you search for this issue and Windows 2003 here.

    V7 uses a user-mode driver for this reason. However the V7 driver still has some issues on 64-bit Windows. This will not be addressed until v8.

    Lenny Forziati
    Vice President, Internet Products and Technical Services
    Alpha Software Corporation

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      #3
      WinVista Issue

      Thanks Lenny, that's sorta what I thought when I saw the errors were kernel level issues. Guess the customer will have to move up to A5V7.

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        #4
        Please tell us you are not using Windows Vista on a production machine - it's a BETA OS
        Bud Gallagher

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          #5
          WinVista & A5V6

          Please give me a little credit. I am evaluating the effects Vista will have on installed appliations.

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            #6
            What about V5 and V4.5 - I hope they will run!!
            Cole Custom Programming - Terrell, Texas
            972 524 8714
            [email protected]

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            "A young man who is not liberal has no heart, but an old man who is not conservative has no mind." GB Shaw

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              #7
              You're on your own there Martin. V5 was released well before Vista was even a thought in the mind of Microsoft. If they've changed OS-level behavior between then and Vista, you won't be able to do much about it. I'm not saying it won't run - we haven't tested it and will not be doing so - but I would not be surprised to hear of problems.

              Lenny Forziati
              Vice President, Internet Products and Technical Services
              Alpha Software Corporation

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                #8
                Re: A5V6 and WinVista

                So are we all still on our own with Win Vista? I can use the program with V. 6, but I can't save or send any reports. Must one still upgrade to V. 8? Will that work? Will it always be such that you have to spend megabucks to upgrade when Windows changes?

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                  Re: A5V6 and WinVista

                  Will it always be such that you have to spend megabucks to upgrade when Windows changes?
                  If windows changes such that things that were once done no longer work, the developers are going to have to rewrite the application, and they are not going to do that for free.
                  There can be only one.

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                    Re: A5V6 and WinVista

                    do you have it installed in program files? if so, try installing it in the root directory - you will have to install both alpha and the application in folders outside of program files.
                    Cole Custom Programming - Terrell, Texas
                    972 524 8714
                    [email protected]

                    ____________________
                    "A young man who is not liberal has no heart, but an old man who is not conservative has no mind." GB Shaw

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                      Re: A5V6 and WinVista

                      I have been running v7 on vista since it first came out. Telling me it won't run there always makes me try harder.

                      I have found only one program that will not run in vista so far.

                      As Martin said, Put everything in a folder off the root directory. It will work. At least, I have had no issues that way.

                      When windows 98 came out, it was a problem also. MS fixed that one, but seems with Vista, they haven't.


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                      Dave Mason
                      [email protected]
                      Skype is dave.mason46

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                        Re: A5V6 and WinVista

                        This was the useful response, and I appreciate it very much. I already had v7, which had caused me some problems before and I dropped it. Putting v. 6 on the root directory didn't solve the problems, but v7 has run well, and, knock on wood, it hasn't repeated whatever errors it used to. Thanks a lot.

                        Sincerely,
                        Ed

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