[PEDA] Protel 99SE vs. Windows 7

Steve Hendrix SteveHx at HxEngineering.com
Fri Mar 12 09:25:40 CST 2010


I finally had to bite the bullet and buy a new PC, skipped over XP 
and Vista directly to Windows 7. I have a mix of very old and very 
new "mission critical" apps. Protel 99SE is one of the former. Almost 
surprisingly, it installed and ran without a hitch. I was even able 
to bring all my settings and customizations over just by copying the 
INI files from the Windows directory.

However, I just discovered a hitch. I can open all my libraries just 
fine, but when I try to attach a library to the schematic editor 
"Add/Remove", Protel says "File is not recognized" (even though I had 
just opened it). Could this be related to the fact that all my user 
directories are on D: on the new machine, vs. C: on the old one? 
Doesn't seem to be, because I can put the library in the exact same 
directory on the new C drive and get the same result.

Any hints welcome!

Steve Hendrix




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