Subject Re: Windows 8 - dBase 2.8 installation incompatability? From Ken Mayer [dBVIP] <dbase@goldenstag.net> Date Fri, 04 Apr 2014 12:10:12 -0700 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started On 4/4/2014 6:43 AM, Pieter van Heerden wrote: > Making progress of sorts, thanks to advice received. > > If I run my application under Windows 8, starting in dBase through the Applicationname.prg, the application runs sweetly, with everything in place.  If I install on Windows 8 , I get an error message on Windows 8: "Could not load plusrun.exe, error 740".  The advised additions/changes have been made. > > If I install  on a Windows 7 computer, the application runs, except that it links up to a wrong menu file, its menu is replaced by another one. > > If I install it on an XP computer, it starts up, shows the flash screen and then dies off. > > Just a reminder of one of my earlier postings, this is an upgrade of an application that was developed on an XP computer many years ago and that runs sweetly on anything from an XP to a W7 computer. > > Any suggestions please? Sorry, I have nothing else ... Ken -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ /(Opinions expressed are purely my own, not those of dBase, LLC)/ *Ken Mayer* [dBVIPS] /Golden Stag Productions/ dBASE at goldenstag dot net http://www.goldenstag.net/GSP http://www.goldenstag.net/dbase/dBASEBooks.htm http://www.goldenstag.net/dbase