FP installation in Windows7

[Richard Kreiss]

No problems as long as any batch file used are located in \fp and not the
root directory.

Richard

> -----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 haroldef
> Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 9:54 AM
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Re: FP installation in Windows7
> 
> 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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