Re-Installing Multiple Versions of VFP 1

[Eguy]

Hi All;

I need to burn down and rebuild my W2K client. What a great way to spend a weekend huh? I will be re-installing VFP 7,6,and 5 plus FPW 2.6. I seem to remember reading somewhere that you should re-install from the latest version first and work backwords. Can anyone confirm this?

TIA
Ed Please let me know if the suggestion(s) I provide are helpful to you.
Sometimes you're the windshield... Sometimes you're the bug.

 

[baltman]

Don't know for sure, but that makes sense. Earlier versions don't know enough to uninstall/replace/update more recent versions.

I know that's how one does a multi-version MS Access install...

 

[rgbean]

Ed,
I've done this on multiple systems, multiple times (3 times on my current system!). I've found that you can't reinstall FPW from the original CD (or floppies), but that you just need to restore a backup from a previous install - that's because it doesn't affect the registry at all, so you can do this anytime. After that you need to do the others in the same order as MS released them. i.e. VFP 5, then it's SP3, VFP 6, then it's SP5, VFP 7, finally it's SP1. If you don't follow this order, then registry entries and file associations will not be "correct".

Rick

 

[Eguy]

Thanks Rick;

That's the route I'll take. Restore FPW from a backup you say. Not a problem - 3 levels of backup stored on 3 machines - Grandfather, father, son - I think I'm covered there.

Ed Please let me know if the suggestion(s) I provide are helpful to you.
Sometimes you're the windshield... Sometimes you're the bug.