Vista

i.candide · Post by **i.candide** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 9:02 pm

Good Afternoon,

Has anyone had trouble running PureBasic 4 on a Vista platform?

I'm getting a new notebook, and it comes with Vista Business.

Enjoy the day,
Earl

Barney · Post by **Barney** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 9:32 pm

I use PB 4.x and Vista Ultimate. No problems so far, but I must add that I am using it as a member of admin group and the UAC (User Account Control) is switched off permanently.

Barney

nco2k · Post by **nco2k** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 9:47 pm

vista home premium 64 here, no problems at all. i also disabled the UAC crap.

c ya,
nco2k

SFSxOI · Post by **SFSxOI** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 10:55 pm

I'm running Purebasic 4.02 on Vista Ultimate. I found that I had to give the user all permissions to the PureBasic directory to avoid a few odd special case issues. It should be fine for you. I've got UAC on but have disabled the notifications (I keep UAC on for the protected browsing) so i'm not bothered by the notifications but still get the advantages of UAC.

Nik · Post by **Nik** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 11:22 pm

If even semi and professional computer users, disable that Security stuff I guess Windows' chance of becoming a reliable system one time are still pretty low, I realy wonder why those Password requests on Macs and Linux boxes don't make anybody turn them off....

nco2k · Post by **nco2k** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 11:56 pm

@Nik
the problem is, UAC is bad implemented imo. it cant really differentiate between an action by user and/or application. furthermore it asks about very small and not necessary issues. for now its more a burden than a help, but i hope they improve it in the future, because the idea itself is pretty good.

however, having a good (non-ms) internet security software is way better anyway.

c ya,
nco2k

SFSxOI · Post by **SFSxOI** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 2:24 am

yeah, nco2K is right. UAC is a good concept but not implemented very well. Its the first time out of the gate on it anyway, so maybe it will improve in the future. I keep hearing a rumor around various MS employee blogs tho that UAC might even go away with the first service pack for Vista at around maybe the end of 2007.

Nik · Post by **Nik** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 11:27 am

Well one will see, I mean MS needs to do something about it, unlike Unix Windows is from the ground up designed to be used as a single mashine without much of a security concern.