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Installing VFP 9 app on Windows 8
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27/02/2013 16:21:09
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Other
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Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01567075
Message ID:
01567076
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>Hi,
>
>I will be at a new customer site tomorrow installing VFP 9 application on Windows 8 Prof. I don't have Windows 8 so I am looking for suggestions on how to proceed (since Windows 8, as far as I know, has a very different user interface). Usually I install my VPF 9 app as following:
>1. Copy from CD all application files to the root of the C: drive as C:\MyApp\, C:\MyApp\Data, and so on.
>2. Run SETUP.EXE (built with Installshield limited) that installs VFP 9 run-time
>3. Create desktop shortcut to the application executable (e.g. C:\MyApp\AppName.exe)
>
>Any suggestions on how to accomplish the above on Windows 8 Pro?
>TIA


We have tested several of our VFP apps in Win8 and they work the same as in Win7. They run in Desktop mode, rather than whatever the other new Win8 mode is called. It looks kind of like the basic UI fallback in Win7 when Aero is turned off, only without the Start bar (unless you download an addon like this one: http://www.iobit.com/iobitstartmenu8.php).
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