Hi Robert

Did you do anything special to get your FPW2.6 working under Win2000? I have W2K installed but when I run FPW2.6, it starts to come up and I can see the IDE flash briefly, then the app quits. No errors or anything.

Any thoughts?

I have the Fast CPU patch installed.

Thanks, Scott


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>1. FPW2.6 apps will run "normally" under Win2000 if it's a virgin install.
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>Should work even if its not. I have some on a install that are working fine.
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>2. Word 2000 is an SDI like WordPad. (Does this sound like a step backwards to anyone else? Why did they do it this way?)
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>Both Word and Excel, probably the rest of office also, are now a mix of MDI and SDI. When opening multiple documents it is in one instance of the application, but each document (not the application, unless there are no documents open) are displayed on the start bar as a running application.
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>3. Word 2000 does not have a "save as" for older formats like the Word95 format.
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>This is an install option not turned on by default.
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>4. A 16-bit sound card will not work under Win2000.
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>Some do, but most will not. You can go to http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/upgrade/compat/search/devices.asp to check the compatibility.