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Re: LDVIEW not working on Vista
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Wed, 2 Mar 2011 08:17:31 GMT
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Where did you install the programs? Both Vista and Windows 7 treat the
"C:\Program Files" folder hierarchy in a special, extra protected way. Many
'old' programs will work much better if installed outside of this folder,
for example create C:\OldPrograms and install them there instead.

That may be a clue indeed, as all my (working) LDraw programs are installed in a
C:\LDraw\apps folder.

Philo



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  Re: LDVIEW not working on Vista
 
(...) Just as a note, I contacted Ludo via e-mail, and I am attempting to figure out what is going on. Since I haven't made much progress, I'm still happy for people to post suggestions here in this thread. Since he said it worked when launched from (...) (13 years ago, 2-Mar-11, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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(...) Where did you install the programs? Both Vista and Windows 7 treat the "C:\Program Files" folder hierarchy in a special, extra protected way. Many 'old' programs will work much better if installed outside of this folder, for example create (...) (13 years ago, 1-Mar-11, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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