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Development Computer Died...

With uiautomationcore.dll and after a period of settling in, my initially ridiculously unstable (with respect to GMAX and FSX) Windows 8.1 install is now surprisingly much better than my XP system with regards to crashes. Except for PMDG aircraft, which require FSX being run in windowed mode.

I have no idea why it was so bad to begin with. And you can get WIN8.1 to look and act just like Win7 I think, although I never had the latter.
 
I've read many posts from people who feel they succeeded by stopping win 8.1 from being a problem, but I've never read a post from someone who likes the function of win 8 OVER the function of win 7. At least for PC use.
 
Yes Shaun, Win8.1 does reportedly work much better now than Win8 did. Yes, there are a number of neat little programs that will make Win8/8.1 look and feel remarkably like Win7. I guess my major gripe is that I shouldn't have to do any of this. Win7 "Classic" should be a user selectable option and not require any third-party stuff to "fix it..."

The other major "gripe" is that if there is a means to STOP a program from running and free up memory, I've yet to find it. There's no "little red x" in the upper right corner to CLOSE the bloody program...
 
I finally got Max2012 installed, re-installed the P3Dv1.4 SDK, the P3Dv2.4 SDK, and configured Max2012 to use the P3Dv2.4 ACES Tools.

I copy/pasted my SendTo shortcuts to the new drive's ..\SendTo folder and edited them to point to the new SDK path(s).

Imagine my utter surprise to find that for some unfathomable reason, they (the SendTo shortcuts) are no longer working if I have the .x and .xanim files in my sim computer's ..\model folder as has been working for years!

After a few HOURS of troubleshooting, I finally figured out that the process is failing because apparently the new computer won't allow me to read/write to my sim machine's drive (access denied). Crap!

I found a 'workaround' by exporting the .x and .xanim files to a folder on my local C: drive...

Tomorrow I have to reinstall Photoshop, and NSIS so I get back to paying work! :scratchch
 
n4gix said:
Unfortunately, not being able to run sysprep on the main hard drive because the host computer cannot boot at all makes this solution a non-starter in this case... :(

It's a real shame since everything on my dead dev machine was finely-tuned and well set up for quick and easy production of gauges, 3d mesh, graphics artwork and project installers...

...but remain just out of reach due to all of the now missing Registry entries. :banghead:

The only "Good News" such as there is and what there is of it is that no data was lost. The only immediate effect has been the loss of the ability to use that data, and the "production time" lost!
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Yeah having the soon to be un-commissioned machine running makes it easier....what Ive done in the past is throw the drive in as a slave then in bios change the boot to d: drive and see how it go's.
Its a 50/50 duck shoot but sometimes if the hardware is similar ie intel nivida ect on both machines it normally struggle through...If it ends in a blue screen or wont boot then disconnect the main drive and use the win7 recovery disc on your old drive....only do this once you have all the data off the drive or an image in case it all go's pair shaped
 
n4gix said:
I sure miss the "good old days" when the OS wasn't "machine bound" and I could have just popped in the old C: drive and kept on driving! :rotfl:
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Windows 7 can do that. I've simply transferred my entire Windows partition from my laptop's old HDD onto a new SSD, popped the latter in and just changed out drivers. No complaints, no drawbacks.
Linux is similarly, if not more tolerant.
 
Yep. I haven't installed the beta release, being far too busy. Just now Chuck reminded me to "share" my (new) C drive with Everyone. That's why I haven't been able to compile .X files from my sim computer. I export across the net from Max2012 because that way I don't have to export/compile and then copy the new .mdl file to the sim machine.
 
Shaun said:
I have no idea why it was so bad to begin with. And you can get WIN8.1 to look and act just like Win7 I think, although I never had the latter.
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And you can get win7 to look and act like XP.
I only changed in April this year and it took a while to XP it, even got the desktop background (Bliss).
 
chris said:
And you can get win7 to look and act like XP.
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Forgive me if that's got me shaking my head in wonder! However, even Win 8.1 can be made to look and act like MS-DOS: just can't think why you'd want to work THAT way.

Happy as a clam with Win7 - and thankful my rig is still working.
 
hairyspin said:
Forgive me if that's got me shaking my head in wonder! However, even Win 8.1 can be made to look and act like MS-DOS: just can't think why you'd want to work THAT way.

Happy as a clam with Win7 - and thankful my rig is still working.
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I'd prefer DOS to win8.1 any day!
 
delivery guy said:
Sorry Bill for your loss, at least you could move all your files to a new computer.
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Yes at least I have that going for me. In fact, my secondary HD where I store the installer build folders and files is intact as well, and now chugging along splendidly. The only changes needed are all the installer scripts need to have their paths changed from F:\ to D:\...

For the time being, I've also dropped the "dead machine's" main HD into one of my docking station's slots so I have instant reference to any of the files there as I laboriously re-download and install/configure the many, many utility programs I need for my production pipeline.
 
Hi Bill....jumping in here late.

Does the dead PC have an old PS2 keyboard jack? I had a friends PC lock up the same as yours but I ran home
and grabbed an old PS2 keyboard....it booted.....ran a Windows Repair from the disks....all was well.

Ken
 
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