On 9/17/2024 7:35 AM, Daryl Stout wrote:
Jack,
The "fix" was so simple, and these are the ones that can cause a lot
of aggravation, and the most problems. It's like having one line off
in some programming code, that will mess everything up.
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I looked at the path, and it hit me...the "username" under C:\Users\username (usually only 5 characters) was DIFFERENT. Next, I
took a look at the configuration file from the D-Rats setup on the
Windows 10 32-bit machine, and sure enough...that was the issue!!
Yes, that issue has been reported here before. If you use the Microsoft default for Windows 10/11 and create your default login account to use a Microsoft account, it creates a different directory structure.
And that is fixed in the current 0.40 D-Rats, the problem was that D-Rats was assuming that directories in the config file already existed and failing if they are missing.
For 0.40 the default is still the older directory structure. I do not want my main PC account to be tied to a Microsoft account, so I do not have any systems with that configuration to test.
One very important thing with Windows to avoid getting your box turned into a brick is to make sure that you have at least two accounts.
A Non-privileged account for your normal use, and also an administrator account. The administrator account should only used for maintenance and repair.
There is a nasty virus that I have seen get by several big name antivirus scanners that appears to be delivered somehow from legitimate websites, assuming from banner advertisement.
When it hits, you may or may not see a DOS box pop up, but the next thing you see is an extortion page and the mouse/keyboard no longer work.
The free Malware Bytes scanner can repair it, but you need to run it from a different account.
If you normally use a computer from an Administrator account, and one of these viruses gets in, you will need to reformat the drive and you may need to have the firmware re-flashed on the BIOS.
I went into the Mode Overview file (available at the hyperlink off of
my QRZ bio), and added that tidbit of info. So, I've got D-Rats 0.39
working on the Windows 11 setup.
And if you hook up a radio on a USB serial port, you will eventually find that it will drop received packets. This tends to show up more newer faster computers. That is just one of the many fixes you are missing by staying with the 0.39.
Now, if I could just keep power and internet during my ham radio nets.
I use a number of UPS systems on all networking and desktop computers.
73,
-John
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