Microsoft Windows Vista

Is RadiMation on Microsoft Windows® Vista® supported?

Currently RadiMation is NOT yet officially supporting the Microsoft Windows Vista® operating system.

The reason that Microsoft Windows Vista® is not supported is that the Microsoft tools used to develop RadiMation are not supported by Microsoft Windows Vista®.

We will do our very best to get RadiMation working under Microsoft Windows Vista®. There are already some tests running at selected customers, to test if RadiMation is correctly working on Microsoft Windows Vista®. However it will take some time to get determine if no problems are occurring.

Getting RadiMation to work under Vista® means rewriting the code so that it runs with a different development environment; but also changing our testing procedures and test programs to ensure that we maintain the same level of quality that we have today.

Converting and ensuring quality will consume a lot of time, because RadiMation is too big and complex for an automated convert tool to understand. This requires that a lot of conversions have to be done manually, to ensure the quality of the source code, and this will take up our resources.

Will RadiMation run on Microsoft Windows Vista?

We have tested RadiMation with Microsoft Windows Vista with Service Pack 1. It is possible to run RadiMation on Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 1 under a normal user account, if after the installation some user-rights are adjusted. See the installation instructions in the user-manual (chapter 2.5.1) and in the next section.

Please note that:

• We did not control any equipment from RadiMation on Microsoft Windows Vista.
• Some user rights need to be adjusted for optimum usability.
• We used RadiMation Version 5.3.17. Any older version of RadiMation is not tested.
• We only tested RadiMation on Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 1.
• If you want to control a supported GPIB board, you need the National Instruments NI-488.2 Version 2.5 software.

Warning:

Please notice that we still do not officially support Microsoft Windows Vista

If you follow our installation instruction (see next section) you should be able to use RadiMation in combination with Microsoft Windows Vista SP1.}}

Installation of RadiMation on Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1)

1. Logon as administrator and install RadiMation. Click on 'Allow' when asked if you want to trust SETUP.EXE.
2. Give the user(s) who need(s) to use RadiMation full control to the RadiMation Program Files directory.
   
3. Give the user(s) who need(s) to use RadiMation full control to the following register key: KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\DAREDevelopment.
   
4. Switch to (one of the) the specified user account(s) and start using RadiMation.

General statement

Running RadiMation under Microsoft Windows Vista is not yet fully tested and there could be some smaller problems, there for you run RadiMation at your own risk.

No official support for RadiMation running under Microsoft Windows Vista is currently supplied. We are however supplying support to selected customers, which cooperate to test RadiMation on Microsoft Windows Vista. If you also want to cooperate in testing RadiMation on Microsoft Windows Vista, please contact radimation-support@raditeq.com. If we (in the future) decide that we will support RadiMation on Microsoft Windows Vista, we will only support Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 1. Versions of Microsoft Windows Vista, before Service Pack 1 will not be supported.

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