Re[2]: XyW on a T43 with XP Pro

[Jonathan & Rachel Craft jncrft@xxxxxxxx]

Hi,

Just throwing in a piece of information about XYWindows. I have a
notebook with Windows XP Pro SP2. I had another computer also running
XP Pro (don't know if it had SP2, but probably). XYWindows doesn't
work on my notebook, but did on the other computer.

I made live boot Windows cdrom using BartPE, and with that stripped
down version of XP, XYWindows does run. So, I think there is hope
getting it to run.


 Jonathan             


Friday, Friday, May 11, 2007, you wrote:

PMG> Phillip Alder wrote:
>> I have a T43 ThinkPad running Windows XP Professional. I have tried
>> unsuccessfully to install XyWrite for Windows. (I used safe mode, as
>> required by TTG.)

PMG> This is the great unsolved mystery. Xywin runs fine on some XP boxes,
PMG> won't run at all on others, and NO ONE has been able to figure out
PMG> why. Somebody had a mo for installing, but if you have a working
PMG> setup, copying it is easier and safer. What happens when you copy and
PMG> then try to run? Zilch? Opens and freezes? What?

PMG> I don't think Home versus Pro is the issue, because I can run it on XP
PMG> Pro at the office. Laptops do have a lot of extra services running,
PMG> but many people cannot make it work on a desktop either. Let me see if
PMG> I ever compiled (or started to) an archive on this. Totally
PMG> inexplicable mysteries like this really bug me. Computers are supposed
PMG> to be science, not mumbo-jumbo and jiggery-pokery.