One for the computer geeks!

I have not got any experience with Mapsource on Vista, but general consensus that XP is far better bet. Faster, more stable, less underwater stones. I make my living by stuffing computers and for my own needs I am still using W2K – IMHO even better then XP.

Cheers
Serg

Make sure you have SP1 loaded. I don't have Visa but know heaps of software won't run unless you go into SP1

madcow
I use Mapsource on Vista , no problems , unless we know ( serg included) the problem your having we cant help.

email me direct dtilley5@bigpond.com and tell me in more detail

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It came with SP1 already loaded. Been digging around this morning and have found a suggestion to turn off the user account control feature.

Not going grey as yet!!

Madcow, like Dougy said it does work ok on Vista, what version Mapsource are you trying to load onto your system, you will need a later version but not the latest version as it has a few problems.
I have Mapsource versiopn 6.13,4 , and CN2008NT has the Vista compatible software on it.

If your loading an old City navigator V4, V5 , V6 you find these might not load properly

It makes me laugh when someone that has never used a product can
reply on utter rubbish

The disc I have is for the old 2.60 version. It came with gpsmap60cx. I may also have to update that to the later version via the Garmin website and drop it onto a flash drive and attempt to load it into Vista. I am only running Shonky and T4A. I have no no need for City Navigator in the country.

We've just bought a laptop! hence our issues.

I appreciate everyones input so far!!

ps it is snowing in the little township of Stanley Vic as we speak.

When installing it right click then click on properties.

Then click the compatibility tab. You will see an option for the program to run as if it was on XP.

If it still doesnt work then do the same thing for the installed program.

I see that you are using quite an old version. Over a period of time how programs are allowed to run has changed. Win95 and Win98 were undiciplined and basically anything went. This made them look easy to use but caused frequent crashes and created huge security holes. Microsoft to there credit are trying to address these issues with Vista and version 7. Vista is quite a bit more secure than winXP. Technically there are several areas that may be part of the problem. Setup is one area where things come unstuck. Often Vista will complain about where the app wants to insert some registry keys or where it wants to write data. I assume Vista has been updating itself over the net. The updates often contain shims for older applications. The shims redirect calls to the OS so that Vista be able to run your app. The shims can even create new registry locations for the app so they will no longer upset Vista. MS have released thousands of shims. If at all possible you should try to have all the security features running. They may be a pest sometimes but the PC will be more secure.

You have not told us much so here is the generic approach

1) If it does not install try running the installer as admin by right clicking and select run as admin.
2) If it installs, try to update from the Garmin site hopefully to a complient version.
3) You can try "Run as admin" on the application
4) Try the compatability modes in properties. If the app was written correctly for a previous OS then these catch all fixes often work.
5) Vista does not like it when the app writes data back to the program files folder, it uses ProgamData instead. Nor does it like programs writing back to ini files. You could try installing to programData to see if this solves the problem. I would only try this after all else has failed.
6) It may be a driver issue as the drivers must be Vista complient or they will not load. There should be updates on the Garmin site.
7) See if Garmin will give you a Vista complient version

Vista does sometimes grey out features that will not run. So if this is an issue an update is in order.

The shim would fix all of these issues but it is likely to only be released for applications that are no longer under development or the for the latest non Vista complient version. If a company offers free upgrades often they never release a shim to MS anyway. After all you just need to upgrade.

If all this fails I would think about getting a complient app. If you have a few months to burn and you want to find out exactly how the guts of the OS works then download the compatability toolkit from microsoft. There is about 800 pages of documentation about intercepting OS calls by an application and redirecting them or converting them to the new functions etc.

Steve

Well i finally managed to load it. funnily enough the disc states the version is 2.60 but it is actually 6.0. My next challenge is to get shonkymaps onto it. I already have them on the desktop running XP.

thanks for your help fellas