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Installing DXLab on Win11 machine

 

I am preparing to purchase a new Win11 machine. I have run DXLabs software for years. The primary Items I wish to transfer is my DX Keeper (log) data base and back ups files. From what I am reading I will make a copy of both databases to a thumb drive. My next step is to download the launcher and start the application and copy the data bases into the C drive in the DXKeeper data bases folder and then run the application.
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I have read and reread the moving between PCs. I am really just trying to get a feel for what I am about to do and REALLY do not want to screw this up. Initially I had hoped that I could use Workspaces to populate commander but that appears not to be the case. This looks like a long and intense process, or am I just confused?
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Thanks for the bandwidth...trying to get ready
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Jim K5KND
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+ AA6YQ comments below
I am preparing to purchase a new Win11 machine. I have run DXLabs software for years. The primary Items I wish to transfer is my DX Keeper (log) data base and back ups files. From what I am reading I will make a copy of both databases to a thumb drive. My next step is to download the launcher and start the application and copy the data bases into the C drive in the DXKeeper data bases folder and then run the application.
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I have read and reread the moving between PCs. I am really just trying to get a feel for what I am about to do and REALLY do not want to screw this up. Initially I had hoped that I could use Workspaces to populate commander but that appears not to be the case. This looks like a long and intense process, or am I just confused?
+ Ops who carefully follow the step-by-step instructions in



+ report that it takes about 20 minutes.

+ re "Initially I had hoped that I could use Workspaces to populate commander but that appears not to be the case" - what leads you to that conclusion?

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? ? ? ? ? ? Dave AA6YQ
 

I just did such a transfer from a Wn10 to a new Win11 machine. Do EXACTLY what Dave delineates in his instructions. It all worked great. The only mistake I made was failing to transfer one or two of the files he told me to do. Then, once I did that, all was well.

It will take a bit of time, but if you are careful and do what the instructions say, it will work fine.

73,. Don AD0K

On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 1:41?PM james aprile K5KND via <jmsaprile=[email protected]> wrote:
I am preparing to purchase a new Win11 machine. I have run DXLabs software for years. The primary Items I wish to transfer is my DX Keeper (log) data base and back ups files. From what I am reading I will make a copy of both databases to a thumb drive. My next step is to download the launcher and start the application and copy the data bases into the C drive in the DXKeeper data bases folder and then run the application.
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I have read and reread the moving between PCs. I am really just trying to get a feel for what I am about to do and REALLY do not want to screw this up. Initially I had hoped that I could use Workspaces to populate commander but that appears not to be the case. This looks like a long and intense process, or am I just confused?
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Thanks for the bandwidth...trying to get ready
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Jim K5KND
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How will the use of different monitors (number, resolution etc.) between the 2 PCs affect the transfer?? Especially when loading the workspace?? Beyond perhaps the need to rearrange the various DXLab windows on the new PC?
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Tim K9WX
 

Hi James,
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I've recently completed an upgrade from WIN10 to WIN11 followed by migration of DXLab to WIN11. As with all things DXLab, the documentation for doing this is complete, correct, and up-to-date.
If you can follow written directions you will be successful. Take your time. Be sure you understand what the directions want you to do. Let us know that you have been successful.
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Larry, K4KGG
 

+ AA6YQ comments below
How will the use of different monitors (number, resolution etc.) between the 2 PCs affect the transfer?? Especially when loading the workspace?? Beyond perhaps the need to rearrange the various DXLab windows on the new PC?
+ Each DXLab application stores the XY coordinates of each of its windows in the Windows Registry. A Workspace populated with the settings of one or more applications thus contains the window positions from all of those applications. Restoring that workspace on a new computer and then starting DXLab applications there will faithfully reproduce your previous window layout - in terms of XY coordinates.

+ That's fine if your old and new systems each have a single monitor. If either or both have more than one monitor, the result may not be to your liking because of the way Windows uses XY coordinates to encode monitor selection.

+ To update the window positions of each of your DXLab applications on your new computer,

1. terminate all running DXLab applications except the Launcher; if the Launcher isn't running, start it

2. direct the Launcher to start a DXLab application whose window positions you haven't yet updated; if there aren't any, this window position update procedure is complete

3. near the lower-left corner of the Launcher's Configuration window, click the Reset button; the Launcher will direct the running application to place all of its windows in the upper-left corner of your primary monitor

4. move each of those windows to the desired monitor and location on that monitor

5. close each window that you don't want automatically opened when you start the application

6. terminate the application

7. go to step 2


+ The above procedure is now step 11 in

https://www.dxlabsuite.com/dxlabwiki/MovingBetweenPCs

? ? ? 73,

? ? ? ? ? ? ? Dave, AA6YQ
 

I just moved from my old shack PC to a new Win11 PC yesterday. I followed Dave’s excellent documentation for the process and it went flawlessly.
It might look like a lot of steps, but it’s pretty painless.

On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 1:41?PM james aprile K5KND via <jmsaprile=[email protected]> wrote:
I am preparing to purchase a new Win11 machine. I have run DXLabs software for years. The primary Items I wish to transfer is my DX Keeper (log) data base and back ups files. From what I am reading I will make a copy of both databases to a thumb drive. My next step is to download the launcher and start the application and copy the data bases into the C drive in the DXKeeper data bases folder and then run the application.
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I have read and reread the moving between PCs. I am really just trying to get a feel for what I am about to do and REALLY do not want to screw this up. Initially I had hoped that I could use Workspaces to populate commander but that appears not to be the case. This looks like a long and intense process, or am I just confused?
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Thanks for the bandwidth...trying to get ready
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Jim K5KND
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I have done the "moving between PCs" process several times over the years.??

Print out the web page on Moving Between PCs, and check off each step as you perform it.? Read each step very carefully, as the descriptions of what you need to do and where you need to do it are precise.??

Every problem I've ever had (and all have been minor) was something that was easily corrected with a few emails here.??

Good luck!

73 de Chuck, WS1L



On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 2:50?PM Dave AA6YQ via <aa6yq=[email protected]> wrote:
+ AA6YQ comments below
I am preparing to purchase a new Win11 machine. I have run DXLabs software for years. The primary Items I wish to transfer is my DX Keeper (log) data base and back ups files. From what I am reading I will make a copy of both databases to a thumb drive. My next step is to download the launcher and start the application and copy the data bases into the C drive in the DXKeeper data bases folder and then run the application.
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I have read and reread the moving between PCs. I am really just trying to get a feel for what I am about to do and REALLY do not want to screw this up. Initially I had hoped that I could use Workspaces to populate commander but that appears not to be the case. This looks like a long and intense process, or am I just confused?
+ Ops who carefully follow the step-by-step instructions in



+ report that it takes about 20 minutes.

+ re "Initially I had hoped that I could use Workspaces to populate commander but that appears not to be the case" - what leads you to that conclusion?

? ? ? ?73,

? ? ? ? ? ? Dave AA6YQ
 

I did this exact same transfer 2 weeks ago; old Win 10 PC to new Win 11 PC. Of the several Ham radio related programs I moved, DXLabs was actually the easiest! I printed out Dave's instructions (5 pages), which Dave provided the link to earlier in this thread, and checked off each step as I went. At first it did look a bit overwhelming, but it wasn't bad at all. There were a number of sections that didn't apply to me since I had not made any changes or modifications to that application. I read through it, checked it off, and moved on.
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I thought about trying to transfer files over my local network, but decided it was easier for me to use a USB thumb drive. Thanks Dave (and any helpers) for the excellent instructions and all your work for our benefit!
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Good luck & 73,
Pete WB4YDY
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Print the instructions in the Moving between PCs link below.

Then check off the steps as you perform them.? You may get distracted during the process and accidently skip a step.?

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72,

Dave, w6de

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Dave AA6YQ via groups.io
Sent: 29 January, 2025 19:51
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Subject: Re: [DXLab] Installing DXLab on Win11 machine

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+ AA6YQ comments below

I am preparing to purchase a new Win11 machine. I have run DXLabs software for years. The primary Items I wish to transfer is my DX Keeper (log) data base and back ups files. From what I am reading I will make a copy of both databases to a thumb drive. My next step is to download the launcher and start the application and copy the data bases into the C drive in the DXKeeper data bases folder and then run the application.

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I have read and reread the moving between PCs. I am really just trying to get a feel for what I am about to do and REALLY do not want to screw this up. Initially I had hoped that I could use Workspaces to populate commander but that appears not to be the case. This looks like a long and intense process, or am I just confused?

+ Ops who carefully follow the step-by-step instructions in



+ report that it takes about 20 minutes.

+ re "Initially I had hoped that I could use Workspaces to populate commander but that appears not to be the case" - what leads you to that conclusion?

? ? ? ?73,

? ? ? ? ? ? Dave AA6YQ

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