On 8/17/2021 5:57 PM, mindbender2995 wrote:
Hello,So back in the day, I remember having to make registry entries and everything. My question is, when I install the new and improved exe installer for ui-view, can I then cut & paste the source folder contents into the destination folder of ui-view and it work ? or, am I looking at disaster ?
The reason I'd like to move contents is i have the updated icons for the map as well as all my settings for digi and server list.
Anyone tried a cut and paste ?
73's de ke4kke
Sort of...?? On any version of Windows after XP, you DO NOT want to install in the default location proposed by the installer. Windows Vista and later very aggressively try to prevent applications from writing? back into the program install location somewhere under the \Program Files folder after applications are installed.
This is a security measure to prevent malware from modifying existing programs after they are installed.??? However, this prevents older programs that try to save user data (settings, .ini files, user preferences, received data, etc) into the program folder from doing so.? (The proper convention for Vista-7-8.x-10-11 is for programs to write post-install data into the folder hierarchy beginning \Users instead.? However, this does nothing for older programs (like UIview) that are un-changeably hard-wired to write back into the program folder.
Further, on 64-bit Windows, 32-bit programs automatically default into installing themselves into a separate folder tree that begins \Program Files (x86)? .
For old programs like UIview that don't know how to "play nice" with UAC (User Account Control), you should override the proposed install location and change it to something completelyh outside the standard Windows locations to something like:? C:\UIview??? or something like: ? C:\OldPrograms\UIview32? .
You CAN essentially "clone" the old installation.?? First do a cold install from the UIview source install file, into a suitable folder. You don't need to register or activate the new install . This creates the necessary hidden references to UIview in the Windows Registry. ? Delete everything in the new new UIview folder after installing.
Then copy the entire contents, including all sub-folders, of your old installation into the new empty new UIview. ? This will, among other things transfer the file? UIREG.BIN? which contains your registration information.? (You want to empty everything in the new folder first, so you don't get constantly nagged that you are trying to overwrite a newer version of many files with an older-dated one.)
Most of the configuration settings and user preferences are stored in the file UIview32.ini .? This file is viewable and editable in a basic text editor like Windows Notepad. ? This file contains references to the location (path) to several of the UIview accessory components (such as UI-NWS.exe, UIcapture, etc). Since UIview is being "reborn" in a different folder path, you have to search UIview.ini for all references to the path on the old machine, and alter them to match the location on the new machine.
FINALLY?? If you are using Precision Mapping 9 with UIview:
It is now impossible to register and activate a new installation of Precision Mapping -- Undertow Software discontinued the product and shut down the activation server several years ago.??? However, you can still make it work with UIview.
???? Install Precision Mapping normally from the DVD or ISO file, run it once and dismiss the prompt to activate, and close the program.?? You will not be able to run the standalone program --BUT--? Precision Mapping's data WILL be accessible inside UIview via the Precision Mapping Server 9.0 plug-in.?? You install and configure the PMap Server 9 plug-in just as before.
You CAN'T just copy an installed Precision Mapping setup from the old machine to the new one; you must go through the install drill to get the all-important hidden settings written into the Windows Registry.????? And note that these tricks only work on PMap 9.0 -- older versions of PMap are impossible to use because they require formal activation and a "magic number" from Undertow Software to use; even with UIview.
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