[Virtualacorn-list] A little problem

[Dave Symes]

Setting the scene:
Fay's old laptop (Win 7 Home Premium 64bit) had been getting very cranky
in the past few months, it is an older machine, that's had, during its
time, a replacement Harddrive and CMOS battery, and a few OS updates and
re-installs.

Time to get a replacement, and as she's now retired and doesn't need
portability, we got a Desktop from our usual source. (Novatech).

New Win PC machine all done and dusted (I've put Win 7 Pro 64 on as the
OS, as I/We have a dislike of Windows Frankenstein [8]) Installed all her
required apps, all straight forward stuff I've done many time over the
years.

So why am I here...
Virtual Acorn is the only fly in the ointment, it's a VRPC-AdjustSA
install.
I'm in communication with Aaron, but would like to widen the quest...

So here we go... 
I've created a Windows directory structure that is for the most part
identical to the one on her old Lappy.
I transferred her VRPC install from the Lappy in Directory
C:\xxx\VirtualRPC-AdjustSA to the new machine and into
C:\xxx\VirtualRPC-AdjustSA
I obtained a new unlock code from Aaron.

Entered the unlock code and it progresses through the "Agree to
the Virtual Acorn License terms" then as far as the "Select model screen"
after selection, no matter what, it will not run.

UAC is switched completely off.

I've now switched compatibility mode to XP-SP 2 or 3 (Machine is W7 Pro,
Laptop was Win 7 Home Premium) but that didn't make any difference.

I moved the whole VRPC dir to another place and installed a new copy from
the CD in to C:\xxx\VirtualRPC-AdjustSA.

Again that accepts the unlock code, presents the Model selection window
the does nothing thereafter.

When I use a Windows tool it checks then attempts to start VRPC but fails
with an error: "VirtualRPC-AdjustSA. failed to find config file".

In all my years using VRPC I've not seen that one before. (Not that I can
remember anyway).

Anyone have any suggestions that might help?

Thanks
Dave

VA.cfg is there and has content.
Model.cfg is there inside the Models\nnn(jit) directory, and has content.

The Win Registry has a number of VirtualRPC-Adjust keys within it and
where required, point correctly at C:\xxx\VirtualRPC-AdjustSA

Just for a laugh (Not) I did a complete uninstall, then a new CD install,
but no change.

D.

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Dave Triffid