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From: John Whitworth on 14 Jun 2010 09:49 "Roger Mills" <watt.tyler(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:87mobpFgs4U1(a)mid.individual.net... > On 14/06/2010 13:23, Adrian C wrote: >> On 14/06/2010 10:13, Roger Mills wrote: >>> > >> >> They are probably trying to create and write a temp file in the same >> folder as the opened file, and not succeeding. Normally the opening >> application should then state "read only mode" and open the file, but >> there might be subtle things afloat stopping it. >> > > That implies that the virtual machine has read access but not write access > to files on the host machine. But other applications running on the > virtual machine can write to the host quite happily - so I still don't > understand why Word should be any different. > > >> Try setting an audit policy in Windows 7 and then check out 7's event >> log. >> >> Maybe host folders are accessed in WinXP as Win7's adminstrative file >> shares. >> >> http://microsoftblog.globalknowledge.com/2010/05/04/detailed-file-share-auditing-allows-you-to-monitor-access-to-windows-7-file-shares/ >> >> > > Thanks for the suggestion. I'll have a look. I'd still be inclined to update whilst hunting for alternative solutions. When Office 2000 was first brought out, Virtual computing was rather less common. JW
From: Bill on 14 Jun 2010 10:09 In message <87ma56Fp11U1(a)mid.individual.net>, Roger Mills <watt.tyler(a)gmail.com> writes >but why should Word (and other Office 2000 applications) behave >differently from (say) Quicken in this respect? Any ideas? Oooh, have you got Quicken installed and registered and in the UK? Someone I was trying to help had it running perfectly on XPMode, but hit a succession of immovable Quicken nonsenses when trying to get it registered. As far as I remember, she found that the UK registration site is no more, Intuit UK said get lost, the Americans refused access and then wouldn't deal with anyone outside their borders when she rang. -- Bill
From: Roger Mills on 14 Jun 2010 11:27 On 14/06/2010 15:09, Bill wrote: > > Oooh, have you got Quicken installed and registered and in the UK? > Someone I was trying to help had it running perfectly on XPMode, but hit > a succession of immovable Quicken nonsenses when trying to get it > registered. > As far as I remember, she found that the UK registration site is no > more, Intuit UK said get lost, the Americans refused access and then > wouldn't deal with anyone outside their borders when she rang. For me, registration isn't an issue - I've still got the original Registration Number, and simply keyed that in when asked, with no need to contact Intuit. I'm still using the free upgrade to Quicken 98 which made it millennium compliant! I've actually installed it on *both* the Win 7 host and the XP Virtual machine. For most purposes - for managing my personal finances - it works perfectly ok under Win 7. However, I also manage the finances of a voluntary organisation which needs to issue the occasional invoice and - for some inexplicable reason - the invoice function doesn't work in Win 7! Incidentally, that's not the only program whose behaviour is different between XP and Win 7. I have a program which scans music scores and performs a sort of OCR on them to produce computer-readable music notation. Under Win 7, everything come up in GERMAN - with no choice of lanuage. Run the same program under XP, and it defaults to English - with an option to use German instead. Explain that if you will! -- Cheers, Roger ____________ Please reply to Newsgroup. Whilst email address is valid, it is seldom checked.
From: dave on 14 Jun 2010 12:15 On 14/06/2010 11:09, John Whitworth wrote: > > > "Huge" <Huge(a)nowhere.much.invalid> wrote in message > news:87mcckF676U4(a)mid.individual.net... >> On 2010-06-14, Roger Mills <watt.tyler(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> It's presumably got something to do with sharing and file privileges >>> etc., but why should Word (and other Office 2000 applications) behave >>> differently from (say) Quicken in this respect? Any ideas? >> >> Because Microsoft are incompetent scum? > > Useful...give yourself a pat on the back. But he hit the nail right on the head though. Wife is ADC for the town's Beaver Scout Groups and has to send minutes from the many meetings she has to attend, to many Beaver Scout Colonies. When she bought herself a new fancy computer, she got complaints from group Scout leaders that they couldn't open the minutes she was sending them. Needless to say, she was using Word 2003. There is a problem with later versions of word that they can't communicate with earlier versions. I showed her how to make a RTF document and there have been no problems since. Dave
From: Roger Mills on 14 Jun 2010 12:41
On 14/06/2010 17:15, dave wrote: > > Wife is ADC for the town's Beaver Scout Groups and has to send minutes > from the many meetings she has to attend, to many Beaver Scout Colonies. > > When she bought herself a new fancy computer, she got complaints from > group Scout leaders that they couldn't open the minutes she was sending > them. Needless to say, she was using Word 2003. There is a problem with > later versions of word that they can't communicate with earlier versions. > > I showed her how to make a RTF document and there have been no problems > since. > > Dave Are you sure you don't mean Word 2007? AFAIK, all versions of word from 97 through 2003 used the same format - but 2007 defaults to docx format. nevertheless, it's a trivial matter to tell it to save in 97-2003 format - then everyone should be able to receive it. -- Cheers, Roger ____________ Please reply to Newsgroup. Whilst email address is valid, it is seldom checked. |