>Understood. Honestly, from what I've seen so far, IMO, Vista is more of a pain in the neck than anything, 75-80% eye candy and 20-25% real functionality.

You're not alone. I really tried to like Vista. I've had it on my Laptop (my primary PC) since it was released on MSDN. I finally have admitted I really despise it.

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>>I agree and I don't know if I want to waste time learning about it and its Aero. I'm thinking about retiring from desktop programing and switch over to just web work where all I have to be concerned about is the code working in a particular browser. MS is turning me off with its 'new' systems breaking my code:(
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>>Dale
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>>>And I have no experience with the 32 bit version. The machine just came with the 64bit version. I know Vista is supposed to be "wonderful", but as far as I'm concerned, you ( not you personally, but the generic "you" ) can have it. :-)
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>>>Bill
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>>>>Thanks Bill. I didn't realize you were running 64 bit. I'll put this on my list of things to check out when I can get access to a 64 bit machine. All of my testing has been 32 bit and as I said, I haven't seen any problems with it.
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>>>>>Hi Dale,
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>>>>>Definitely not my experience. This is vista 64bit and the windows are squirrelly with invisible headers and other issues. I can live with the cosmetic stuff but the data errors cannot be tolerated. I suspect some kind of security issues which I hope to get resolved from the sites in Sergey's post.
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>>>>>Bill
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>>>>>>>I recently had to get a new computer which came with Win Vista on it. I am trying to run an older application written in VFP 6 on it. The windows do not render correctly of course, but I can live with this. Now, however I am getting data errors when the app tries to access tables and update them.
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>>>>>>>Are there specific things that can/must be done on a Vista computer to get a VFP 6 app to at least run from the data perspective? Upgrading to a later version of VFP is not an option.
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>>>>>>>Thanks,
>>>>>>>Bill
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>>>>>>Before responding, I went back and checked a large VFP6 app. running under VISTA (running on a Virtual Machine) on this computer. The DataBase is on a separate server. Everything looks good and runs with no problems that I know of. All the windows/screens look as good as they do under XP.
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>>>>>>I haven't had a chance to check every screen, but if there is a problem that I missed seeing I'm interested in finding out about it. So far, the client doesn't have any Vista machines, but from what I've seen in my testing I've told them the program should run okay when they do buy Vista machines.