Oldster wrote:
>
> "Dave "Crash" Dummy" <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
> news:I7nYn.4343$Ls1.3025@newsfe11.iad...
>> Mark Blain wrote:
>>> "Dave \"Crash\" Dummy" <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote in
>>> newsrmYn.15806 $dx7.15048@newsfe21.iad:
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>>>> One big disappointment when I upgraded from W2K to Windows 7
>>>> was that InCtrl5, an old installation tracking program from PC
>>>> Magazine, no longer worked. I like its simplicity and lack of
>>>> pretension about "fixing" anything. It just records changes in
>>>> files and the registry. Is there such a program that is Windows
>>>> 7 (64) compatible?
>>>
>>> You may have missed this in PC Magazine's forums.
>>>
>>> "Inctrl 5 working with Windows 7 Professional 64-bit"
>>> http://discuss.pcmag.com/forums/thread/1004426190.aspx
>>
>> I did. I will read it in detail and give it a try. Thanks! -- Crash
>>
>>
>> "The real question is not whether machines think but whether men
>> do." ~ B. F. Skinner ~
>>
>
> Read that forum thread, did the changes, but the program still fails
> to work for me. I feel that somehow the environment does not get
> changed properly. Anyway inctrl5 ends up with everything "greyed
> out", and I can't type in any field. I'm running windows7 Ultimate.
> Any thoughts?
No, except that forum thread makes it too complicated. I am running 64
bit Windows 7 Ultimate, and all I had to do was right click on
InCtrl5.exe, select "Troubleshoot compatibility," and walk through the
steps. After that, I could successfully run InCtrl5 like any other program.
--
Crash
"The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion."
~ Arnold H. Glasow ~