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The dreaded Windows 10 Version 1803, anyone ??
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25/05/2018 06:52:10
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Visual FoxPro
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Installation, Setup and Configuration
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Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP2
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Thread ID:
01660318
Message ID:
01660384
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>Hi Al,
>
>>If your bundler/virtualizer makes any "naughty" system calls it might be affected by MS's Meltdown/Spectre updates. I suspect some of these have been baked into >1803, since it's the first major "feature update" since Meltdown/Spectre were disclosed in January this year
>
>I tested two altenative bundlers, enigma and boxedapp. Enigma bundler called "virtual box" is free. But it would cope with our case. It displayed serious hickups. I am in the process of testing BoxedApp. It looks like it will tick most marks:
>- easy to use, really!
>- bundled executables start up reasonably fast,
>- we can, again, forget about ocx(es) and dll(s),
>- compression factor is decent.
>
>Tests are not finished. But I expect the product to prove itself as a no-brainer deployment solution. Of this comes at a price. But mild in view of the nightmare of installation in the corporate world. I'll report in a couple of weeks when the thing is thoroughly tested!
>
>Thanks to all who contributed to this thread.
>
>Daniel

We have found Boxeapp applications under certain conditions the antivirus deletes the EXE with a false positive error.
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