(oops) Downloaded Finale Notepad (after going through all the registration BS). It downloads as a Zip file which contains the self-extracting executable file. I tried installing it. I get an hourglass icon for about 2 seconds then nothing, i.e., it won't install!
I'm thinking that maybe the most recent version is not compatible with Win2K, which is my computer's OS, and that maybe I need to get (somehow) an earlier version to get it to install properly. Any thoughts?
On 04 Jul 2008, "RichL" <rpleav...@yahoo.com> wrote in alt.guitar.beginner:
> I'm thinking that maybe the most recent version is not compatible > with Win2K, which is my computer's OS, and that maybe I need to > get (somehow) an earlier version to get it to install properly. > Any thoughts?
Nil <rednoise+n...@REMOVETHIScomcast.net> wrote: > On 04 Jul 2008, "RichL" <rpleav...@yahoo.com> wrote in > alt.guitar.beginner:
>> I'm thinking that maybe the most recent version is not compatible >> with Win2K, which is my computer's OS, and that maybe I need to >> get (somehow) an earlier version to get it to install properly. >> Any thoughts?
> (oops) > Downloaded Finale Notepad (after going through all the registration BS). > It downloads as a Zip file which contains the self-extracting executable > file. I tried installing it. I get an hourglass icon for about 2 > seconds then nothing, i.e., it won't install!
> I'm thinking that maybe the most recent version is not compatible with > Win2K, which is my computer's OS, and that maybe I need to get (somehow) > an earlier version to get it to install properly. Any thoughts?
>> (oops) >> Downloaded Finale Notepad (after going through all the registration >> BS). It downloads as a Zip file which contains the self-extracting >> executable file. I tried installing it. I get an hourglass icon >> for about 2 seconds then nothing, i.e., it won't install!
>> I'm thinking that maybe the most recent version is not compatible >> with Win2K, which is my computer's OS, and that maybe I need to get >> (somehow) an earlier version to get it to install properly. Any >> thoughts?
> Do you have all the service packs installed?
> Bob
Yep, and this is the first time I've run across this particular type of glitch, and I install software all the time.
On 04 Jul 2008, "RichL" <rpleav...@yahoo.com> wrote in alt.guitar.beginner:
> Yep, and this is the first time I've run across this particular > type of glitch, and I install software all the time.
I'm a longtime user of Cakewalk Sonar, and I ran version 2 for years on Windows 2000. I wanted to upgrade to a later version, and in fact I actually bought the upgrade to ver 5 because the price was too good to pass up... but I wasn't about to install it for more than a year until I finally built a new computer and went from 2000 to Windows XP. Sonar 5 wouldn't run on 2000.
Nil <rednoise+n...@REMOVETHIScomcast.net> wrote: > On 04 Jul 2008, "RichL" <rpleav...@yahoo.com> wrote in > alt.guitar.beginner:
>> Yep, and this is the first time I've run across this particular >> type of glitch, and I install software all the time.
> I'm a longtime user of Cakewalk Sonar, and I ran version 2 for years > on Windows 2000. I wanted to upgrade to a later version, and in fact I > actually bought the upgrade to ver 5 because the price was too good to > pass up... but I wasn't about to install it for more than a year until > I finally built a new computer and went from 2000 to Windows XP. Sonar > 5 wouldn't run on 2000.
Oh sure, I've had things like that happen. If I'm going to shell out money for software I'm really careful to check compatibility issues these days. But this is the first time I've run across software whose installation program wouldn't even run!
By the way, one of the AGB posters (who I shall not identify unless he wants me to) sent me the installation .exe for Finale Notepad 2007 (an earlier version). I had no problems installing and using it, and it seems actually easier and quicker to use than MagicScore School.
I don't know anything about W2k, but does it have a "legacy mode" for running programs like XP does, that allows running older OS friendly programs in the new OS?
Lumpy <lu...@digitalcartography.com> wrote: > I don't know anything about W2k, but does > it have a "legacy mode" for running programs > like XP does, that allows running older OS > friendly programs in the new OS?
It may....I'm not sure. I've never run into compatibility problems with older programs; I have a lot of really old scientific software on my computer.
But the problem here is the opposite: *old* operating system, *new* program. I suppose that's why the 2008 version of NotePad didn't install properly whereas the 2007 version did. (Win2K = Windows 2000, in case that wasn't clear.)
On 04 Jul 2008, "Lumpy" <lu...@digitalcartography.com> wrote in alt.guitar.beginner:
> I don't know anything about W2k, but does > it have a "legacy mode" for running programs > like XP does, that allows running older OS > friendly programs in the new OS?
Yes, it does, but I've never found the feature to be very useful. In Rich's case, it's the other way 'round, where his program required features found only in the newer OS (XP) to run.
Even though I stuck with Windows 2000 for years and resisted XP, I now that the XP is much more stable and has better functionality than did 2000.
> On 04 Jul 2008, "RichL" <rpleav...@yahoo.com> wrote in > alt.guitar.beginner:
>> Yep, and this is the first time I've run across this particular >> type of glitch, and I install software all the time.
> I'm a longtime user of Cakewalk Sonar, and I ran version 2 for years on > Windows 2000. I wanted to upgrade to a later version, and in fact I > actually bought the upgrade to ver 5 because the price was too good to > pass up... but I wasn't about to install it for more than a year until > I finally built a new computer and went from 2000 to Windows XP. Sonar > 5 wouldn't run on 2000.
I suspect that part of the problem with Finale's NotePad is that it allows you to "play the music". This probably has the software using DirectX to do this, which keeps changing with each O/S release among other things like the "installer" differences.
