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Detecting/Starting Lotus Notes in Win7
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Visual FoxPro
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Coding, syntax & commands
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01534863
Message ID:
01534886
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There has been talk here lately that VFP does not play well with Win 7 64 bit.

>We have both. The initial change was made because of the 64 bit machines having the exe in a different folder (the one with x86 in it).
>
>This seems to work fine on my machine - it is 32 bit.
>
>>Is Win 7 64 or 32-bit?
>>
>>>As we start to deploy Win7 laptops, users are getting an error message on the following lines of code (depending on which directory the notes.exe is in):
>>>
>>>
CASE FILE('c:\Program Files\IBM\Lotus\Notes\notes.exe')
>>>RUN /N 'c:\Program Files\IBM\Lotus\Notes\notes.exe'
>>>CASE FILE('c:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\Lotus\Notes\notes.exe')
>>>RUN /N 'c:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\Lotus\Notes\notes.exe'
>>>
>>>The intent is to launch Lotus Notes. It has worked fine up until now with XP. The error message is
>>>
>>>
RUN|! command failed. The system cannot find the file specified.
>>>
>>>I have done some reading and it looks like it is a problem with trying to issue a RUN command for something in the Program Files folder in Win7.
>>>
>>>Advice appreaciated. All we want to do is detect if Notes is running and if not, launch it.
>>>
>>>TIA
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