1207 Installation: Running Paradox 8 on Win NT and later versions of Windows

VERSIONS: Paradox 8 - Win NT, Win XP

SUBJECT: Running Paradox as a different user than the one installing it

BY: KEITH TROTTIER < keithtATcorel.ca >
Date: 9 June 1999

Log in as Administrator. Select Start | Run. Type in: regedit

When the Windows registry comes up
click the + sign beside HKey_Current_User
click the + sign beside Software
click the + sign beside Corel
click the + sign beside Paradox
click on 8.0 ( 8.0 should now be highlighted )

Now select the Registry menu option and choose export registry file. Please assign this new file a name and select a location on your C drive to and save. I typically like to save thing in a folder relating to that product so why not save it to your Corel folder.

Repeat the steps above and as last step click on 8, and export registry file once more.

Loggoff as Administrator and log on as a user.

Once logged on, use NT Explorer to locate the saved files and double click on them to update the registry for this user profile.

Launch Paradox, problem should be corrected.



SUBJECT: Can't See Project Viewer

BY: RICHARD FAIRHURST
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998

This code will work to do most of the work of copying the registry entries. (I actually ran it and it did what I expected to my .DEFAULT user account). It can be run in a script. I would change the commented line of code to the other user's login account (get it under the Hkey_User directory). Then I would log in as the install user (who is set-up correctly for Paradox) and run the script. This will take the logged in user's Hkey_Current_User values in the Software\Corel\Paradox\8.0 directory and copy it to the other specified user account.

var
   arstRegkeys		array[]	string
   arstValueNames  	array[]	string
   daratValues  	dynArray[]	anytype
   siI, siJ 	smallint
   at 		anytype
endvar

enumRegistryKeys( "Software\\Corel\\Paradox\\8.0", RegKeyCurrentUser, arstRegkeys )

if arstRegkeys.size() > 0 then
   for siJ from 1 to arstRegkeys.size()
       enumRegistryValueNames( arstRegkeys[siJ], 
       		RegKeyCurrentUser, arstValueNames )
       if arstValueNames.size() > 0 then
          try
             at = arstValueNames[1]
             for siI from 1 to arstValueNames.size()
                 daratValues[arstValueNames[siI]] = 
                    getRegistryValue(arstRegkeys[siJ], 
                    	arstValueNames[siI], RegKeyCurrentUser)
; Change the line below from ".DEFAULT\\" to the user account string followed by \\.
                    setRegistryValue(".DEFAULT\\" + arstRegkeys[siJ], 
                    	arstValueNames[siI], 
                    	daratValues[arstValueNames[siI]], regKeyUser)

             endfor
          onFail
	      for siI from 1 to arstValueNames.size()
	          at = getRegistryValue( arstRegkeys[siJ], "", RegKeyCurrentUser )
; Change the line below from ".DEFAULT\\" to the user account string followed by \\.
	          setRegistryValue(".DEFAULT\\" + arstRegkeys[siJ], 
	          	"", at, regKeyUser )
	      endfor        
          endTry
       endif
       daratValues.empty()
   endfor
   endfor
endif

BY: "Stuart" < lesley_stuartATbigpond.com >
Date: 5 October 2004

In the past week all PCs and laptops in our office have been upgraded to Win XP machines.

Everything runs fine, however when we use the export command we only have the option of exporting to ASCII, were as previously we could export to a large number of other formats - excel, dBase etc.

Solved the Export, Project Viewer and Expert problem by uninstalling Paradox and reinstalling with myself as User of PC.

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