I heard from Corel today and they said the following...

Make sure that you have given full permissions to the user on your PC.  Paradox must have read, Write and EXECUTE permissions to the folder containing the .NET file.

For anyone interested 

I just installed Paradox 7 on my Vista Home Premium.

Firstly, I copied the Setup dir to my D: disk (This proved to be unnecessary)

Second, I moved pagefile.sys to D: to get more memory. 

The installation (setup.exe) then ran equally well off the CD or from the aforementioned copy on D:\

I changed the location of BDE and the BDE conf. files to C:\Program Files\Common Files\BDE  

in the installation dialog.

Now; how to get it running. 

From the web page: http://www.gartplan.dk/info/VistaConfig_US.htm 

I followed the instructions and changed permissions in the registry for users to "Full Control"  to the Borland folder under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE . 

Then, to allow Paradox access to a location (the default C:\ is not allowed in Vista) to create the PDOXUSRS.NET file, I created a new folder called  C:\BDEshare,

 and ran C:\Program Files\Common Files\BDE\BDECFG32.EXE  . 

There I changed the path of the value for NET DIR  to C:\BDEshare and saved. 

(This is where PDOXUSERS:NET file will be created at startup of first database)

Presto! Paradox 7 is up and running .

So, I logged off as administrator and logged on as a regular  user and tried to start Paradox again.

It failed. So, once more,  I ran

 C:\Program Files\Common Files\BDE\BDECFG32.EXE as user and changed

the path for the NET DIR to C:\BDEshare .

Success! 

My Paradox 7 for Windows 95 & Windows NT is happily running on Vista Home Premium.

Kudos to Borland I must say, for creating such great software!

 Cheers,

Lars 

I followed Lars' instructions for making my Paradox 10 to work on Vista and it works.  However, I am getting the following popup error message when I close the program: 

 "PARADOX FOR WINDOWS HAS STOPPED WORKING.

"A PROBLEM CAUSED THE PROGRAM TO STOP WORKING CORRECTLY.  WINDOWS WILL CLOSE THE PROGRAM AND NOTIFY YOU IF A SOLUTION IS AVAILABLE."

 Do you think it is okay?  Should I continue to run Paradox?

 David

Eric

I just ordered WordPerfect Pro X3 and was specifically told that Paradox would NOT run on Vista. I don't know why they say this.

Steve C

Hi All, just set the registry permissions for the BORLAND group as above and no exit error for Pdox10 runtime (vista business). Does anyone know if these permissions can be set as a registry function.

 Perhpas then the only matter in installation is to have Inno installer imediately open the BDE config program and instruct the user to set net dir.  Nearly a one hit installation)

 Eric

Hi all

As a follow up, using Vista business, Pdox10 runtime and Inno installer, am able to do a single install (application and runtime) with no exit error on runtime close. Uses Inno during install to set registry entries and registery permissions.

Regards

I have just installed Paradox 10 on a new Vista machine and I am also getting the error message on exiting...is there a simple, step by step, lay person's way of fixing this?

Apart from the exit error, which seems to be a minor annoyance rather than a problem, I have encountered a problem in trying to paste .GIF images into a form. This worked perfectly on 98 and XP but in Vista I get the Windows message 'CDR Converter has stopped working' followed by the Paradox message 'disk error while trying to read file'.

I have tested this by trying .GIF and .JPG files and trying using different files and from different locations - all return the same error so it doesn't seem to be an actual disk error.

i have Paradox 9, with lots of coding and forms, so, understandbly, i do not want to follow the bandwagon to ACCESS. It works flaowlessly with XP.

Enter Vista, and of course when i install it, it installs great.

But when i try to open it, it give me the message of death about .net or BDE, or something like that. unfortunately, i have Word 2007 as my other business tool, so, some of my machines are Vista with Word 2007, and the others are XP with PAradox 9.

Very inefficient. So, i need help to show me how to get Paradox 9 to work on Vista. i am not familiar with the bowls of Vista, so, please give me a step by step instruction.

Thanks in advance.

Glenn,

Thanks a million, will give it a try, and report back in 2 weeks (i am away from my home at this moment). I really appreciate your help.

You asked and you shall receive. Please refer to the following KB Post...

• Install Paradox 9 on Vista

Installed Pdox 7/32 on VHP yesterday.. Ran into errors, and just blanket changed permissions on directories to get running.. Today installing Ultimate32 and will try domain connection and idapi.. hopin it works.. works on every OS to date :)

Grant

Refer to the section titled "Defeat Vista's Application Virtualization" in the Paradox 9 on Vista article. That should help.

• http://www.prestwood.com/ASPSuite/kb/document_view.asp?qid=101098

I don't see anything in the WordPerfect Office X4 information on the Corel website saying that it doesn't run on Vista. They had something for X3 saying it wouldn't run on Vista. Can anyone confirm that the X4 version of Paradox works on Vista?

The short answer is yes with some minor problems. The X4 version of Paradox you are talking about is the Paradox 11 version with the service pack applied. That means 100% of the information in the Can I Install Paradox 10/11 on Vista article applies.

FWIW, I successfuly installed Pardox 7 on Windows 7 Home Premium 32bit last week.  Had to overcome the .net issue, but did not have to change permissions as I did with Vista.  I also did not have to use Win7's compatibility mode to either install or run.

Skip ahead a week, now I am going to attempt the same on a Win 7 Professional 64 bit.  Any advice is welcome, I will try to post back how it goes.

I have Paradox running on Vista, but have corruption issues with it. The service packs mentioned are no longer available. Not only did Corel not say that the program would not run on Vista, it was actively promoted for the OS. Highly unfortunate.