FP installation in Windows7

[haroldef]

On 11/22/2010 4:46 PM, Richard Kreiss wrote:
> 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.

I designed fp for the reunion group over twenty years ago, and another 
guy started calling all over the US to find new members that served 
aboard the ship between 1945 and 1973, and send upgrades to me and the 
others that have filepro.  Everyone that has filepro, except me, are 
computer illiterates (I am fairly literate). They can use what they have 
but windows7 and changing filepro are beyond their abilities.  Can you 
imagine talking to a guy on the phone and you tell him to click on an 
icon on the desktop and he asks, "Right or Left click?"

It has been so simple for so many years.  What kind of trouble are we 
going to have if FP remains in C:\FP in Windows7.  Microsoft wants to 
charge me for the information, and I refuse to pay them for information 
that should be in their installation instructions.

As I mentioned in an earlier email, in windows7, FP located at C:\FP 
seems to work just like it has done for FP's existence.

Harold
>
> 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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