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IanM
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Minimum Operating System requirments

Postby IanM » Tue Mar 14, 2006 4:50 pm

My app will run on all varieties of windows aprt from Windows 95 so I set the Minimum requirement to Win 98.

One of my users is running NT4 and is being kicked out. I had assumed that the hierarchy was

Win 95
Win 98
Win Me
NT4
etc.

If I set the minimum requirement to NT4 will this block Win 98 users or am I missing something?

Ian

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Postby MichaelNesmith » Tue Mar 14, 2006 5:26 pm

Hi Ian

The hierarchy actually uses Windows version numbers. So it would be like:

95 - 4.0
NT4 - 4.0
98 - 4.1
ME - 4.9
2000 - 5.0
XP - 5.1
2003 - 5.2
Vista - 6.0

So you could keep your existing logic but add an extra IF to bypass the test if platform is NT.
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Postby IanM » Tue Mar 14, 2006 5:30 pm

Thanks Michael,

The only exclusion for me is Win 95 so setting the minimum to NT4 should do the trick. I can't see the need for an extra IF statement.

Yipee one less unhappy user!!

Ian

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Postby MichaelNesmith » Tue Mar 14, 2006 5:43 pm

Actually, NT4 checks for 4.0, just like Win95...so you would want an additional IF, I believe.
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Postby IanM » Tue Mar 14, 2006 5:45 pm

MichaelNesmith wrote:Actually, NT4 checks for 4.0, just like Win95...so you would want an additional IF, I believe.


Ah I see! :oops:


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