FP installation in Windows7

[Richard Kreiss]

Windows will advise that an unsafe program is trying to run.

MS wants to keep most executable files out of the root directory especially
bat files.  

Can one get around the warnings, yes of you try hard enough.  Since the fp
and filepro directories can be easily moved from c:\ to c:\appl\ and the
startup file adjusted to point to these, I would strongly recommend
following this advice.

I do nothing but work with filePro on Windows systems.  Even on server
installations both Server 2003 and Server 2008, filepro is installed \appl\.
On my laptop  running  Windows 7, filepro development is installed c:\appl\.
However, as I also have some client's applications installed, their apps are
installed as c:\clientname for the filepro directory, and fp\menus for their
menus.

FilePro will run no differently than before but just be one level deeper.
Besides, there is a limit to the number of files and directories allowed in
the root directory.  I seem to remember that it is 255 but I may be wrong.





> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces+rkreiss=verizon.net at lists.celestial.com
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+rkreiss=verizon.net at lists.celestial.com] On
> Behalf Of Jean-Pierre A. Radley
> Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 3:37 PM
> To: FilePro Mailing List
> Subject: Re: FP installation in Windows7
> 
> Richard Kreiss propounded (on Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 02:14:34PM -0500):
> 
> | haroldef at sbcglobal.net wrote:
> |
> | > After about thirty years of installing FP in C:\fp, I am now advised
> | > by Fptech's technical help that Microsoft wants programs installed
> | > into Windows7 to be placed in a folder on drive C, for example in
> | > C:\appl\fp.
> | >
> | > Can anyone tell me what kind of trouble I will have if I continue to
> | > use C:\fp in Windows7?
> | >
> | > Harold
> |
> | I would strongly suggest that you follow FPTech's advice as Windows 7
> | will complain about installing in the root directory of C.
> |
> | If you follow their suggestion of installing in c:\appl, just adjust
> | your startup file settings to point to the new location.
> 
> Harold asked what trouble he would be in.
> Is that "complaint" any kind of "trouble?
> Does the complaint recur every {reboot|day|minute} ?
> Is there any functional impairment?
> 
> :-)
> 
> --
> JP
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