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Hi,
At this time I cannot afford the MSDN subscription or for that matter purchasing a copy of all of Microsoft's OS's.. So, at this time, I am only able to test my software out on Windows 98 which is the same OS that my software was developed on..
My question is, should I be aware of any problems or incompatibilities that may occur if say a customer installs my software on anything other than 98, such as ME, 95, 2000, NT, etc?
Any help on this subject would be appreciated..
Dan
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well, this is not a simple one ..
there are lots of places for erros, but generally if you don't use any API's in your program or any winsock, as far as I know there shouldn't be any problems.
cheers
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Don't try VB Progs with ANY API in win2000 or any other NT. you will never know what may crash it.
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don't be so harsh on him, most API's would work on both, just if he doesn't have a way to check it, then he should avoid it ...
:-)
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Correct me if I'm off base here...
But wouldn't this be a great place to have a number of Beta Tester's for your program???
At least you would receive some constructive feedback, and hear about any possible concerns with different OS's.
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Thanks for the feedback.. Actually, my application does use API and Winsock... Although the API is pretty basic and limited to reading/writing to the registry.. Which leads me to another question. I understand that NT and maybe 2000, has tighter security when it comes to the registry. Do I need to take that into consideration, such as user priviliages and things of that nature?
Thanks,
Dan
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If you are looking for "beta testers" I have win2000 prof, winNT 4.0 server, win98se, win98se hebrew ver at home I can test it for you on all if you like.
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I'm not being harsh on him, but I'm just suggesting because he doesn't have MSDN Subsc. for the latest API buggies.
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sorry for being harsh on you :-)