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  • D David ONeil

    I believe Win8 also had compatability mode for older programs. Right-click on the executable and go into properties, or something, and chose compatibility mode and set to Win XP or earlier??? (or something like that - I don't remember Win8's exact steps).

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    glennPattonWork3
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    Tried that, I think I did that the first time I installed it (and it worked!) :wtf:

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      Try installing it in your users' documents folder. Unless it mucks with the registry, that may work.

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      Trying that now!

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        Try installing it in your users' documents folder. Unless it mucks with the registry, that may work.

        Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^] "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.

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        Eddy Vluggen wrote:

        Try installing it in your users' documents folder. Unless it mucks with the registry, that may work.

        That'd be my guess.  It's probably a permissions thing, so install it anywhere except the Program Files directories (or the Windows directory, of course).

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          Eddy Vluggen wrote:

          Try installing it in your users' documents folder. Unless it mucks with the registry, that may work.

          That'd be my guess.  It's probably a permissions thing, so install it anywhere except the Program Files directories (or the Windows directory, of course).

          I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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          I may be confusing it with an UAC-issue, so it may not work. Guess we'll hear it in a bit.

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            I may be confusing it with an UAC-issue, so it may not work. Guess we'll hear it in a bit.

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            glennPattonWork3
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            And that would be a no! But I 'don't need the app on that Laptop' famous last words... :-D

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            • G glennPattonWork3

              Tried that, I think I did that the first time I installed it (and it worked!) :wtf:

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              You probably did, but just in case, did you try running the (installed?) program as Administrator after the installation? (And running the installation as administrator?)

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              • G glennPattonWork3

                Hi All, Company policy is to lock everything down to a degree where it's next to impossible to do anything. So to use some tools we use on a regular basis (which were written in Delphi using stone tablets, back in the day!) we need to Admins on the PC's, which is at odds with IT security! So I am trying to run (I have managed to install it!) one of the Applications on a Windows 8 Laptop... I know I managed to get it running at one stage but how???? :confused::mad::confused:

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                glennPattonWork wrote:

                Company policy is to lock everything down

                Spawn tickets to ICT each time something can not be done. Their policy, their responsibility. Your due diligence ends at the very moment you open a ticket, if deliveries are missed it can't be your fault. After a handful of missed deliveries things will change.

                GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++*      Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X

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                • G glennPattonWork3

                  Hi All, Company policy is to lock everything down to a degree where it's next to impossible to do anything. So to use some tools we use on a regular basis (which were written in Delphi using stone tablets, back in the day!) we need to Admins on the PC's, which is at odds with IT security! So I am trying to run (I have managed to install it!) one of the Applications on a Windows 8 Laptop... I know I managed to get it running at one stage but how???? :confused::mad::confused:

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                  Please post where you work so that others can avoid being hired on. Eventually someone will go postal.

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                  • D den2k88

                    glennPattonWork wrote:

                    Company policy is to lock everything down

                    Spawn tickets to ICT each time something can not be done. Their policy, their responsibility. Your due diligence ends at the very moment you open a ticket, if deliveries are missed it can't be your fault. After a handful of missed deliveries things will change.

                    GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++*      Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X

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                    glennPattonWork3
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                    Quote:

                    After a handful of missed deliveries things will change.

                    Well that's happened and no it's got tighter as we are less secure... :laugh:

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                    • D den2k88

                      glennPattonWork wrote:

                      Company policy is to lock everything down

                      Spawn tickets to ICT each time something can not be done. Their policy, their responsibility. Your due diligence ends at the very moment you open a ticket, if deliveries are missed it can't be your fault. After a handful of missed deliveries things will change.

                      GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++*      Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X

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                      True dat. And if the perception is that you're trying to work around their policies, then the tables will be turned against you. And if there's nothing else you can do while things get fixed, track the time you're spending waiting for someone else to do their jobs. Email summaries.

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                      • D dandy72

                        True dat. And if the perception is that you're trying to work around their policies, then the tables will be turned against you. And if there's nothing else you can do while things get fixed, track the time you're spending waiting for someone else to do their jobs. Email summaries.

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                        Pretty much all you said. Been there...

                        GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++*      Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X

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