Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

I went and looked at the download sites and the general consensus
seems to be that it is not supported under Vista, however, some people
in the forums say they have it working under Vista. I'm wondering if
the Vista machines that work are machines that were upgraded from XP
and the ones that don't work had Vista installed when they were purchased.

An upgraded machine would likely still retain many of the older OSes
files (.dll, .ocx etc). The Vista versions of these files may not play
nicely with the proteus software. These files, amongst other things,
control the way in which the OS is 'allowed' to talk to the hardware. 

As an interesting experiment perhaps someone with a Vista machine
could try downloading a piece of software called Dependency Walker
(depends.exe). When you run this and point it at an executable file it
will show all the files that executable requires (and if any of them
are missing). It may prove to be a good starting point but trying to
unravel software is usually a long, involved process.

Sorry I can't be more helpful at this point. If I think of anything
else I'll let you know.


--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, Andrew <Alan_mansfield@...> wrote:
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> I've never had XP... this is a new laptop that came with Vista
installed, and before this I've always been all hardware.
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