PBP, Vista and MPLAB

[keithdoxey]

I havent used Vista properly yet and have no intention of installing it on any of my PCs. In fact I think only one of my PCs would actually meet the required specification.

I have seen the glitzy interface on PCs in the shops but at the moment XP Pro does everything I want my PC to do.

I have used a Vista machine once when I was trying to sort out a friends email problems. The first hurdle I encountered was that I couldnt see "Run" anywhere on the start menu.

Flash of inspiration..."WindowsKey + R" rings up the Run dialogue box. Type "cmd" and got a command prompt. Great

Type "Telnet"

'Telnet' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

At that point I went to the XP machine in the same room to use Telnet

I have seen reports that sevral of the programs that are important to me will not run on Vista so for the time being I am steering well clear of it.

I dont see the point in upgrading just for the sake of it

[Luciano]

Hi Keith,

See this link about Telnet and Vista.
http://www.techronical.com/2006/10/05/

Best regards,

Luciano

[keithdoxey]

Hi Keith,

See this link about Telnet and Vista.
http://www.techronical.com/2006/10/05/

Best regards,

Luciano

Thanks Luciano

I actually saw that last week but that was a week after I needed it.

Microsoft actually seem to be making PCs more difficult to use for anything other than mainstream tasks. Its bad enough that a basic install of XP puts "pretty" views of control panel etc. First thing I do is switch to classic view so that I can see what I am looking for. LOL

I know that DOS is dead but the command line still has its uses when you are trying to find out why you are having internet problems etc using ping, tracert, ipconfig etc. especially when the help Wizards dont help !!!

Regards

Keith

[locko]

I have just bought a new laptop with Vista 32 home premium. Finally got around to installing my pic stuff and all seems to be ok

Downloaded and installed latest MPLab.
Downloaded and installed latest Microcodestudio.
Installed my PBP compiler V2.46

Loaded an old project compiled it, loaded in to MPlab and programmed and confirmed a pic via my picstart plus programmer.

Never had to run anything as administrator. Not really sure why you are having problems.

Try un-installing everything, dowloading the latest versions and try again.

As for Vista - I have had no problems with it, its the best OS I have used yet. Only lost one program so far and a Vista update will be out in the fall for it.

sorry I cant help, but it 'should' work.

Good luck.

[Sean_Goddard]

Vista?? EEEUUUUUURRRRRRRGHHHHHH What a load of junk. Does things it THINKS you want it to with no regard for what you ACTUALLY want to do.

FACT!! Did you know that at the current rate of take-up, it will take until late in 2009 for Vista to overtake sales of XP and then it will only be 54% of the market.

Vista has been a disaster for Microsoft sales wise. Most IT professionals I know have rejected ANY idea of installing it until it is proved to be more stable.

One classic was an error message stating "A Critical ERROR has occured - Windows Vista has succesfully installed on your computer"! I have seen this quite a few times when a few people I know ran out and bought the latest "must have" junk from the Seattle Screw Crew.

Steer clear is the best advice, UNLESS it's the Business Pro version. Stay with XP Pro, far more stable.

[AndrewC]

Has anyone had any luck getting MPLAB to recognise PBP under Vista64 bit ?
I'm making no progress with it at all
Setting the compatibility to Win98 stopped MPLAB from loading so I tried XP SP2 and still couldn't see the language pack.

[AndrewC]

For anyone interested there is an effective workaround to run 32bit XP apps inside the Vista 64 bit environment. Microsoft has a free Virtual PC download. You can install that and then install XP as a virtual 32 bit OS inside a shell. Microsoft do state that Virtual PC is "unsupported" in Vista Home and Premium but "unsupported" is not the same as "does not work"

Update: gnash, gnash - the software all works but Virtual PC does not pass thru USB connections and I've got a USB programmer.