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I have been tasked with migrating an old Crystal Reports app originally written under Seagate Crystal reports in the Neolithic age onto a new Windows 7 SP1 32 bit box where the existing version will not run. I have installed Crystal version 14.0.2.364 and tried opening the .RPT files in the...

I just changed AV programs on my wife's computer, a slightly long in the tooth XP Pro system running office XP. After doing so we get a msg at Outlook startup about a missing dll for an old digital camera program that was removed years ago. It would appear when the AVG uninstall removed its...

Win 7 pro machine running XP Mode in virtual machine. VNC server is installed in the XP machine, so can connect to it remotely via network and internet. Thus the Win 7 machine is now multi-user - one on the Win 7 desktop and one connected to the XP desktop and accessing a shared database quite...

I just compiled an old program after a minor change, and when I tried to test it to my amazement Win 7 UAC jumped in and asked if I wanted to let this program from an unknown publisher make changes. Reply yes and the program runs fine. So I went thru the program to see if it is doing anything...

I know little about Vista, but have become reluctantly embroiled in helping a friend who has Vista Home Premium on which he has been sharing public folders with no problem. Then he installed Norton 360, and found he could no longer see the Vista shares from 2 XP boxes on his network. So he...

Well over a year ago I refitted an old Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop with Ubuntu 8.04, and have been very happy with it as a laptop OS. However that venerable system is now dying and I want to buy a new laptop. I heard Dell now sells Ubuntu systems, but I'll be darned if I can find any on their...

I have a Win XP SP3 machine which uses ntbackup to back up files to a Sony tape drive. This has been working fine for over 2 yrs. Suddenly the scheduled task failed to run Mon night. User came in and found tape not ejected so tried to open ntbackup to check the log. NTBackup didn't start. Tried...

I am a complete newb to Apache and I am trying to use mod_rewrite to redirect requests to different servers depending on the incoming URL. Basically I need to refer info requests for specific suppliers' products to their sites. This works fine where the match expression is in the basic url, for...

Greetings. I have been experimenting with using the OTC Mediator database server v4.2.6.0 to access tables residing in MySQL 5.0 database. I am running xHarbour 1.0 beta and also 0.99.7. Basically everything works very well, with the weird exception that if I index a table (index on ...), it...

So windows update wants me to download SP3, somewhere between 70MB and 320MB (don't they know?) via dialup. I don't think so. Looked around support.microsoft.com but couldn't immediately see where to order SP3 on CD. Does anyone know if it's available? If so a link would be appreciated...

Hi, folks With XP sailing into the sunset I now must support users running Vista so I am about to get a Vista system in-house. Up till now I have had no compelling reason to use Vista and based on the sluggish performance I have seen and the compatibility tales of woe I have thus far hung back...

Hi, folks I have this thread in the email forum: thread605-1462712 Just wanted to put a link here in case anyone has some thoughts on this one. Thanks Jock

I have a user running Outlook 2003 under Win XP Pro SP2 on both his system at the office and on his home machine. He has a daily task of assembling an email which is a compilation of several other emails he receives. So what he does is forward the first one, then he does insert/item and gets...

I am trying to set up a legacy app currently generating print output to a disk file to send the disk file to the default Windows printer after completion. I have created a little test file called spool.txt which just has a few lines (132 chars) of plain text. I try to print it using this...

Since patch Tuesday in Nov, the screen saver on one of my systems simply doesn't function. No matter which screen saver, 3D or otherwise, it just never kicks in. I am able to preview any screensaver no problem, and when previewing it will run indefinitely, but no matter what timeout setting it...

Greetings. Yesterday I finally decided to let automatic updates install IE7 on my fully patched XP SP2 system. Installation went fine, however when I start the browser it attempts to configure default settings (default search engine) by connecting to runonece.msn.com/runonce2.aspx. It brings up...

Not having heard any alerts, I yesterday updated my system with the latest Tuesday batch of MS updates to my XP Pro SP2 OS. Subsequently I was unable to log into my ISP (Compuserve) - a connection which requires execution of a script (CIS.SCP) which is supplied with XP and was working fine...

Hi, folks I have been using xHarbour for awhile as a CL5 replacement and generally have had good success, but find the lack of documentation a bit of a problem especially when looking to use Harbour enhancements to the language. I know about the online manual at xHarbour.com, but I was...

Hi, folks. I am looking to find out what the story is with gmail. I see a lot of people have gmail addresses now, but as far as I can tell it is some kind of an "invitation only" signup. How does this work? I don't see any info on mail.google.com or on google.com as to how to get an invite. I...

Greetings. I recently developed an outlook macro (for OL 2002/2003) which creates a new outlook msg by reading the to:, subject and html msg body from files created by a database application. To do this I used the scripting file system. Unexpectedly I am now trying to implement the macro on an...