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Old October 8th 08, 05:25 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
Light2
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Default 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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Old October 8th 08, 05:41 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
Mark S.
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Default 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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Old October 8th 08, 08:35 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
Chris L Peterson
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Default 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.
_________________________________________________

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Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com
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Old October 9th 08, 08:33 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
Light2
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Default 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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Old October 9th 08, 09:47 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
Chris L Peterson
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Default 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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Old October 10th 08, 01:05 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
Terry A. Haimann
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Default 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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