Re: Universal Installer does not start on WinXP

Hi,

> I'm afraid I'm going to have to agree with Sybrand (hope that's your first
> name - apologies if not) on this one. 8i is simply not supported on XP
> Home. It's possible that some idividuals have made a successful
> installation on their particular setup. I would consider the statement of
> 'not supported' to simply mean 'will not run on XP HOME'. If you have a
> particular setup and it happens to work then lucky you.

Thank you for your answer. But I never mentioned WinXP Home. Of course I don't use it for development machine. I use WinXP Professional.

> I have XP Pro installed at home. There are a number of games from a coupl
> eof years ago I would love to have installed but as they do not mention XP
> on the box (often only because of timing) I simply dare not chance them.
> Exactly the same scenario.
>
> I don;t think it's too likely you will get a satisfactory answer to your
> question because it is somethign that few other people would have
> encountered and even fewer would have bothered to solve, simply because
it's
> not supposed to be done.

Regards,
Bogdan
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Received on Fri Aug 29 2003 - 11:43:21 CDT