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Installation, Setup and Configuration
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Windows 2003 Server
What does the WOW stand for?
>How the application suppose to know where to look for the ini file?
>Under 64-bit Windows all regular Windows folders belong to 64-bit subsystem. The 32-bit subsystem Windows folders have either '(86)' or 'WOW' in the name.
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>>I have an old VFP 6 application that I am trying to get to run on windows 7 64.
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>>It has an INI file that tells the program where the data directory is. In XP, the file is located in C:\windows\paths.ini
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>>From years of experience using this app, i know that it returns an error if it can not locate the file (paths.ini). This is the same error I am getting.
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>>I have dropped the INI file in nearly every directory I can think of and I still get the error message. Can not locate a dbc.
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>>I have tried
>>c:\windows
>>c:\windows\system
>>c:\windows\system32
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>>even placed it in the root of the program folder. It still can't find it.
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>>I've been able to get my own older VFP apps to run fine, but this "off the shelf" app is giving me problems.
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>>I have tried running the setup program in XP comparability mode and also tried running the application exe in XP comparability mode.
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>>the exe returns the same location error.
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