Vista - Re: nearly to point of giving up :(

On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:33:16 +0000, Lee wrote:
>
> However, THE most important thing for me is Sage Instant Accounts which
> worked fine in RC2 (i checked!)...though now in retail it wont accept a
> restore....just asks for a password that i have never set.

What has Sage said concerning this problem?

They would be the first call you need to make - they can tell you if their
product is supported on Vista. It doesn't matter what you've tested until
Sage states their product is fully supported on Vista.


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Leythos
spam999free@rrohio.com (remove 999 for proper email address)

Thanks for your replies.

I have tried running the program in XP compatibility mode, and no that didnt
work.

I've now tried disabling the UAC, also to no effect on the Instant Account
package

I havent contacted Sage as of yet for reading what goes on in the sage
forums it would be a pointless exercise.....one look in their forums would
leave you in no doubt that they would simply say that it wont work and they
dont support Vista in ANY of their packages yet.....no doubt i will have to
upgrade at great cost later if i wish to remain using their software suite.

Thanks again for your comments, and hopefully more people will become aware
of the foibles of computer programming mistakes/laziness of the past and
make efforts in the future to make things a bit easier for us mortals

Meanwhile, if anyone does come up with a solution of how to get Instant
Accounts V11 working (and accepting restores!), then i would be most
grateful.

Lee


"Leythos" <Void@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:33:16 +0000, Lee wrote:
>>
>> However, THE most important thing for me is Sage Instant Accounts which
>> worked fine in RC2 (i checked!)...though now in retail it wont accept a
>> restore....just asks for a password that i have never set.
>
> What has Sage said concerning this problem?
>
> They would be the first call you need to make - they can tell you if their
> product is supported on Vista. It doesn't matter what you've tested until
> Sage states their product is fully supported on Vista.
>
>
> --
> Leythos
> spam999free@rrohio.com (remove 999 for proper email address)

"Leythos" <Void@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:1170327522_4741@sp6iad.superfeed.net...
> On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:33:16 +0000, Lee wrote:
>>
>> However, THE most important thing for me is Sage Instant Accounts which
>> worked fine in RC2 (i checked!)...though now in retail it wont accept a
>> restore....just asks for a password that i have never set.
>
> What has Sage said concerning this problem?
>
> They would be the first call you need to make - they can tell you if their
> product is supported on Vista. It doesn't matter what you've tested until
> Sage states their product is fully supported on Vista.
>
>
> --
> Leythos
> spam999free@rrohio.com (remove 999 for proper email address)

Surprised no one has suggested it, but if you want to stick with Vista
without dual booting, you could run Sage Intsant Accounts from an XP Virtual
Machine from within Vista until Sage get their act together and no need for
dual booting.

VPC 2007 (currently in Beta) is available for free from Microsoft and the
only problem you will have is if your Sage restore files are on a USB memory
stick - floppy or CD are ok, but USB is not supported in VPC2007 (but you
should be able to work around this shortcoming by mapping the USB stick as a
network drive).

Geoff