Windows 7 and BBO Windows client

[fred]

We heard a report today from a user who is having trouble getting the BBO Windows client to run properly under Windows 7.

 

The "free upgrade" to Windows 7 that was supposed to come with a computer we bought recently is taking longer than expected to arrive so we have not had a chance to try this ourselves.

 

Has anyone out there tried this combination? If yes, I would appreciate hearing about your experiences.

 

Thanks,

 

Fred Gitelman

Bridge Base Inc.

www.bridgebase.com

[TylerE]

I've been running BBOWin on the 7100 Build (The publically released RC version) for several months with zero issues.

[Trumpace]

The windows client worked fine for me on Win7.

[etha]

I have just got windows 7 today having used bbo fine for ages on winxp.

I cannot get windows 7 to work it crashes after 3 or 4 seconds oddly both on the download version and the web version. I will let you know if I find a solution.

[hotShot]

Using Windows Vista or Windows 7, the BBO WIN-client could have a problem with access rights to the BBO directory.

 

Of cause that would not influence the Web-Client.

[etha]

Ok fixed it. I had two people logged into the laptop at once. Eventually I thought i would try without the other person and restarted and everything worked.

The first login was an admin and that was where i was trying to run the programs so i had no priviledge problem. The second person was not admin but I am suprised them being logged into the laptop still would affect anything. Anyway first day with windows 7 so I may have missed something obvious like I always need to reboot when i install something new.

Will post more info if it appears.

[jandrew]

Installed Windows 7 on my Toshiba Laptop today (after deleting Vista, repartitioning the hard disk and re-formating). (I dont like to only upgrade over the previous OS.)

 

BBO worked perfectly :) (except that my customised colour schemes have reverted to the default).

 

Will pluck up the courage to upgrade the Desktop later. How do I retain my colour scheme?

 

jandrew

[fred]

Will pluck up the courage to upgrade the Desktop later.  How do I retain my colour scheme?

Thanks to everyone who posted about Windows 7.

 

I am not sure what you mean by "upgrade the Desktop", but the options you select in the BBO Windows client are saved in this file:

 

X\profiles\BBO_Y.ini

 

Where X is the directory that BBO resides in and Y is your BBO user ID.

 

The directory that BBO resides in is something you decide on when you install the Windows client. The default is:

 

c:\Bridge Base Online

 

So if your BBO user ID is "fred", the complete path and if you use the default installation directory, the complete file path would be:

 

c:\Bridge Base Online\profiles\BBO_fred.ini

 

You can always make a copy of that file and move it to another BBO installation. I strongly suggest that you not be logged in to BBO when you do this.

 

If you run into trouble please e-mail: support@bridgebase.com

 

Fred Gitelman

Bridge Base Inc.

www.bridgebase.com

[jandrew]

Fred

 

Thanks for the info about the **.ini file.

 

"Upgrade the Desktop" meant that having installed Windows 7 onto the Laptop machine, I was plucking up the courage to do the same on the Desktop Machine (my main computer).

 

jandrew