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    Question System Requirements for FileAlyser

    Hi Patrick and Everyone in the Forums

    Just a quick question about what OSes FileAlyser should run on ? I'm currently using 1.2rel3 on WinNT 4.0 SP6a + SRP + hotfixes.

    It appears to function without error, however later versions such as 1.4 and 1.52 beta have problems complaining about things like:

    "missing .dll msimg32.dll" - obviously needed to process image data like icons (I can add this to the system)

    "invalid entry point in GDI32" - looks like FileAlyser is making calls to functions that don't exist on NT4 systems

    Is this the end of the line for your product on NT 4?

    Calvin.

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    The 1.5.2 beta has the same problem? Hmm... will check this tomorrow; that was a problem with our development environment not supporting Windows 95/NT4 any more, but we've got it manually patched. Actually we're not thinking about end of lines there, instead going backwards as well as forwards trying to support Wine, ReactOS & the like even.

    Btw, imho you can use the msimg32.dll from dll-files.com and even those versions will run
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    Quote Originally Posted by PepiMK View Post
    The 1.5.2 beta has the same problem? Hmm... will check this tomorrow; that was a problem with our development environment not supporting Windows 95/NT4 any more, but we've got it manually patched.
    EXCELLENT - I'm really pleased to hear that you intend to keep supporting NT4 and it's era. Many software writers seem to be going out of their way (or is it just that they are plain lazy) to kill off everything except XP, in some cases they won't even support Win2k !

    In answer to your question - YES, on my systems here (have tested on 2 different NT4 boxes) V1.52b complains about invalid entry point in GDI32

    Quote Originally Posted by PepiMK View Post
    Actually we're not thinking about end of lines there, instead going backwards as well as forwards trying to support Wine, ReactOS & the like even.
    Kewl - ReactOS is the most likely candidate for a replacement OS here when NT4 finally reaches a point of no longer being able to be maintained - but I suspect we are years away from ReactOS becoming a 'production/stable' release !

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    Btw, imho you can use the msimg32.dll from dll-files.com and even those versions will run
    Already done - I've had to 'pull this trick' several times with other software packages to satisfy their needs I have checked the NT4 installation media and confirmed that msimg32.dll is not part of the base installation for this OS - I presume it is added to your test systems by IE ? This could explain why I don't have this .dll - IE is TOTALLY banned here and has never been installed as it is too big a security risk ! (SeaMonkey is used in preference)

    Hopefully you can sort this problem out - FileAlyser is a great tool and I'd really like to be able to use the latest releases !

    BTW: I trust your statement of ongoing support of NT4 includes SpyBot as well ? (I hope so, the best anti-spyware product out there !)

    All the best - thanks for the quick response,

    Calvin.

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    Not sure if I have any newer than the default IE version on those machines, usually I don't deal with it there.

    Yes, that includes Spybot and every other app we have, with the exception of TagsRevisited, which due its Unicode features and the status of being a fun app only doesn't get that much attention

    We created CompatAlyzer especially to make this (checking application compatibility easily) easier. It's database is not complete and it checks only for statically linked functions (with dynamically linked ones, it's not clear whether they're loaded depending on the availability, or improperly always), but it gives a good first look, as to where an app can run, and whether it's something big, or a small thing that prevents compatibility to Windows version X.
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    Quote Originally Posted by PepiMK View Post
    Not sure if I have any newer than the default IE version on those machines, usually I don't deal with it there.
    OK

    Quote Originally Posted by PepiMK View Post
    Yes, that includes Spybot and every other app we have, with the exception of TagsRevisited, which due its Unicode features and the status of being a fun app only doesn't get that much attention
    I'm delighted to hear that - glad some people still recognise that there is a world of Windows outside of XP (Yuk) or Vista (bleah)

    Quote Originally Posted by PepiMK View Post
    We created CompatAlyzer especially to make this (checking application compatibility easily) easier. It's database is not complete and it checks only for statically linked functions (with dynamically linked ones, it's not clear whether they're loaded depending on the availability, or improperly always), but it gives a good first look, as to where an app can run, and whether it's something big, or a small thing that prevents compatibility to Windows version X.
    Nifty tool - I downloaded it and tried it - works OK here on my NT4 system.

    I tried feeding FileAlyser V1.52b to CompatAlyser and it reports no problems - however when I launch FileAlyser 1.52b for real NT4 reports:

    "The procedure entry point GdiGradientFill could not be located in the dynamic link library GDI32.dll"

    I have confirmed GDI32 is the latest (and last) for NT4 ie: Version 4.00.1381.7270

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    Could be than that GdiGradientFill is just not yet in CompatAlyzers database - it depends on us parsing as much files as possible, then checking that information on each OS. Will have to update it with Vista information anyway, so I guess I should plan a new release of it
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    Quote Originally Posted by PepiMK View Post
    Could be than that GdiGradientFill is just not yet in CompatAlyzers database - it depends on us parsing as much files as possible, then checking that information on each OS. Will have to update it with Vista information anyway, so I guess I should plan a new release of it
    Sounds good - I hope we can also ultimately clear up this problem with FileAlyser as well, so it is useable on NT4 systems.

    Thanks for the quick responses,

    Calvin.

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