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Redshift 3 and Vista after installation - will only run from CD
Windows Vista is turning my hair into grey.
The new pc with Vista, now demands that a LOT of the old programs neeeds the CD in the -drive ongoing to be executed, even though they were meant to be installed and executed from the hardrive only, once installated. For instance Redshift 3, which refuses to run without the CD. (Works fine on our old XP machine) Copying all the files to the HDD on the new PC and executing from there doesn´t help. Any suggestions ? PS. Keep your XP operating system. Vista is.....(censored) Pete |
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Redshift 3 and Vista after installation - will only run fromCD
Light2 wrote:
Windows Vista is turning my hair into grey. The new pc with Vista, now demands that a LOT of the old programs neeeds the CD in the -drive ongoing to be executed, even though they were meant to be installed and executed from the hardrive only, once installated. For instance Redshift 3, which refuses to run without the CD. (Works fine on our old XP machine) Copying all the files to the HDD on the new PC and executing from there doesn´t help. Any suggestions ? PS. Keep your XP operating system. Vista is.....(censored) Pete Hi, Create an image of the CD and mount it using "Daemon tools." I use an old version (V2.47 freeware) of this program to mount images on Windows 2000. This way you never need to use the old CDs. It works works fine for Redshift 3 and many other CDs. For more info please check out the newsgroup "alt.comp.freeware" where you will get lots of help. Mark S |
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Redshift 3 and Vista after installation - will only run from CD
On Wed, 8 Oct 2008 18:25:09 +0200, "Light2" wrote:
Windows Vista is turning my hair into grey. The new pc with Vista, now demands that a LOT of the old programs neeeds the CD in the -drive ongoing to be executed, even though they were meant to be installed and executed from the hardrive only, once installated. For instance Redshift 3, which refuses to run without the CD. (Works fine on our old XP machine) Copying all the files to the HDD on the new PC and executing from there doesn´t help. Any suggestions ? IMO you can't really complain when a program that was designed around DOS doesn't work with a new, and substantially different operating system. While my primary advice would be to convert to a newer planetarium program, something designed with a modern OS in mind, my second suggestion would be to try running your old software in a virtual machine. VirtualPC is a free download from Microsoft, and you can set up several if you like, running XP, W98, or even DOS. You can then install your old software in whichever machine is most appropriate. _________________________________________________ Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com |
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Redshift 3 and Vista after installation - will only run from CD
Virtual PC 2007 does not support Vista Home Premium
We`ll stick to the real sky, instead of one which has to be generated via Microsoft ;-) And doing all this confirmation on and on just for opening a menu-window in VHP is better spend under the stars. Clear skies. "Chris L Peterson" wrote ... On Wed, 8 Oct 2008 18:25:09 +0200, "Light2" wrote: Windows Vista is turning my hair into grey. The new pc with Vista, now demands that a LOT of the old programs neeeds the CD in the -drive ongoing to be executed, even though they were meant to be installed and executed from the hardrive only, once installated. For instance Redshift 3, which refuses to run without the CD. (Works fine on our old XP machine) Copying all the files to the HDD on the new PC and executing from there doesn´t help. Any suggestions ? IMO you can't really complain when a program that was designed around DOS doesn't work with a new, and substantially different operating system. While my primary advice would be to convert to a newer planetarium program, something designed with a modern OS in mind, my second suggestion would be to try running your old software in a virtual machine. VirtualPC is a free download from Microsoft, and you can set up several if you like, running XP, W98, or even DOS. You can then install your old software in whichever machine is most appropriate. _________________________________________________ Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com |
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Redshift 3 and Vista after installation - will only run from CD
On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 21:33:14 +0200, "Light2" wrote:
Virtual PC 2007 does not support Vista Home Premium We`ll stick to the real sky, instead of one which has to be generated via Microsoft ;-) And doing all this confirmation on and on just for opening a menu-window in VHP is better spend under the stars. Clear skies. Whether its worth the trouble or not is your own call. I've read that VirtualPC actually does work with Vista Home, but is not supported (that describes a number of possible guest OSs as well). Another option is VirtualBox, which definitely runs under all versions of Vista, and is also free. My personal solution is to simply avoid using Vista, which so far seems to offer very few advantages, and those in exchange for way too many hassles. _________________________________________________ Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com |
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Redshift 3 and Vista after installation - will only run fromCD
If you are curious, it will run under Linux/Wine. But not well.
On Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:25:09 +0200, Light2 wrote: Windows Vista is turning my hair into grey. The new pc with Vista, now demands that a LOT of the old programs neeeds the CD in the -drive ongoing to be executed, even though they were meant to be installed and executed from the hardrive only, once installated. For instance Redshift 3, which refuses to run without the CD. (Works fine on our old XP machine) Copying all the files to the HDD on the new PC and executing from there doesn´t help. Any suggestions ? PS. Keep your XP operating system. Vista is.....(censored) Pete |
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