Windows 7 and filePro 5.6 installation

[Nancy Palmquist]

Posting this for other users that might be upgrading.  I was trying to 
install 5.6 on Windows7 and I am told that using the Windows Product ID 
for the license would not work in the current release.

If you are creating a new license, use the Hard Drive ID - shown at the 
top of a dir list for the drive.

I also setup XPmode - which is really cool, btw.  I keep all my filePro 
dev versions on Drive G.  It turns out that in XP Mode, if you map the 
Win7 drive G to G using the normal map thing in XP, it will also be able 
to see the drives and I am hoping the license will work.

You may have to manually activate the service on one or the other so the 
license server is running.  Haven't got that far yet.

The two places seem to run independent so I expect they both need the 
service or I have to treat it like a network workstation or something.

Haven't figured out setting up the printers in XP Mode, I expect they 
need to be installed just as if it was another machine, and not a 
virtual computer. I have been accomplishing these things in bits as I 
have time.

Hope everyone is keeping their heads above the snow.

Nancy


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