[Kmymoney] Call for Windows package testers

[Jack]

On 2014.09.12 22:10, Jack wrote:
> On 2014.08.26 12:20, Cristian Oneț wrote:
>> 2014-08-26 18:28 GMT+03:00 Jack <ostroffjh at sbcglobal.net>:
>> > On 2014.08.26 09:59, Doug Lytle wrote:
>>>>>> but I think that needs to be specially setup and since Microsoft  
>>>>>> no longer offers support for XP I don't know why should we do  
>>>>>> that.
>> >> And, I really don't expect you or anyone to do that.
>> > I can also understand not supporting XP, but what about Windows  
>> Vista?
>> Since I don't have Vista available, I can't say, somebody should try  
>> it. I was sure about XP since I had one and tried to run the new  
>> version on it. I get an error like [1] this.
>> [1]  
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7702463/what-is-special-about-the-executables-compiled-with-visual-studio-11-which-resul
> 
> Sorry for the delay, but I finally got to try the installer on a  
> Windows Vista system.  The installer ran fine, with no errors, but a  
> momentary pop-up of a command line window complaining about missing  
> mime-types (or something like that - it disappeared after about a  
> second with no intervention on my part).  Trying to run KMM, however,  
> does absolutely nothing.  No error, no warning, no window.  I even  
> tried from command line - just back to command prompt, no feedback at  
> all.

[replying to my own message because I can't currently find any later  
message in my oveflowing inbox]

After uninstalling and reinstalling, it seems to work fine, even  
without a reboot.  One difference is that this time I installed as a  
user with admin privs.  I confirmed it still works as that user and a  
different user without admin privs.  So - we know the latest installer  
does work under Windows Vista.

As a digression:  the uninstall/reinstall was a nightmare.  It seemed  
to complete the uninstall fine - no error messages.  I then tried to  
run the installer, and got some error message about not being able to  
write one of the dll files.  I cancelled the install, and started  
looking in the install directory.   I'm not absolutely certain whether  
stuff had not been deleted by the uninstall, or if all those files were  
from the second installation before it failed.  However, I had a very  
hard time simply deleting all of them so I could make a clean install.   
I don't know what the underlying issue was, but I just could not delete  
any of the dll files (and some others?) either as a user with admin  
privs, or even as the main system owner user.  I finally managed to  
delete everything using the Cygwin shell.  All seems OK now, but we'll  
see what happens on the next uninstall when I try the next version.

Jack