Re: old DOS prgram won't start
- From: "D.Currie" <dmbcurrie.nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 11:09:52 -0700
"billious" <billious_1954@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "D.Currie" <dmbcurrie.nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> This is on a customer's computer.
>>
>> Peachtree Classic Version 12
>> Windows XP home, just did all updates.
>>
>> When I click on the program icon, I get a split second of the hourglass,
>> then nothing. If I copy the whole program folder over to another
>> computer, it runs fine.
>>
>> It's not an exe problem; other exe's run fine.
>> Peachtree support has information about adding certain environmental
>> variables to allow the program to run. I've done that with no success
>> (and the computer that is does run on doesn't have those variables).
>>
>> I've created a new user, in case that was the issue, checked permissions,
>> tried to run from Safe mode, from a command prompt, and with every
>> possible combination of compatibility options. The only difference is
>> that when I try to run in compatibility mode, 256 colors or 640x480, the
>> screen goes black for a second, then comes back on.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> The customer only needs to run this for a few hours, and then he can
>> trash the program, but he needs those few hours.
>>
>> --
>> D.Currie
>>
>
> Since it runs on the other computer, and the customer only needs to run it
> for a few hours, can you transfer the required data to the other computer
> and let your customer use that computer to do the task?
>
> On a similar vein, I used to be able to run ASCENDANCY on XP (the mouse
> was painful, but it'd run...) but it suddenly decided it wasn't going to
> run any more - I believe that it was after I installed XPSP2.
>
> Running it under DOSBOX v0.63 restored - and in fact enhanced operation.
>
> HTH
>
> ...Bill
>
I considered lending him a computer, but the one that it runs on is my test
machine which is sort of an octopus with nothing really screwed in
permanently and a lot of programs that I use daily. It's a piece of junk,
but it does a lot of work for me.
But I finally got it to work. There was something left behind that none of
the anti-spyware programs were killing.
Thanks, everyone, for the suggestions.
.
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