Read my previous reply . . .
On 14/8/2018 4:13 pm, Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode wrote:
Quickest route might be LC 6.7.
No matter which version, 6 8 9, if you can, turn off ALL update
preferences/options.
*That would have been very difficult indeed as I was 100% unable to get
at anything.**
**On launching LC 8, after the splash screen there was nothing. I could
not even raise the MessageBox**
**even though the Windows resource manager told me LiveCode was still
running.**
**
**The simple fact was that all versions of LiveCode did not come up with
any of the GUI**
**because:**
**
**1. Pirate version of Windows 10 with NO anti-virus anything: probably
had great big holes in its underpants.**
**
**2. System loaded with tons of pirated games.**
**
**3. Returned the machine, said a fair few strong words anent piracy,
and will NOT touch any kid's machines**
**with Windows in Bulgaria again: learnt a nasty lesson.*
Check Task Manager and end any stray LC processes, especially an
"Installer" or "Setup" process which is usually just an update check,
but causes tons of issues. Furthermore I often deleted that setup file
(it's .setup.exe in each IDE folder) and that's what you can do if you
can't access the prefs.
Sometimes LC on Windows didn't launch correctly right after install -
just end any processes, don't reinstall, and normally launch. Then it
works.
Note that none of this "fun" is actually about Windows itself, it's
just less LC familiarity and support for Windows, and perhaps fewer LC
users on that side.
I switched to Windows soon after the point when Mac abandoned its
original rigorous human interface research, because I have a little
less fine motor control than the average person and Window provides a
little more real estate for some of the controls.
*I switched to Linux when I couldn't afford the vast expense of buying
Macintosh machines . . .**
**
**and found that Linux is much, much better than either Macintosh or
Windows insofar as it allows**
**even uncoordinated types like myself very "fine motor control" with
tweaking the system to the way I like things.*
That made Windows easier for me to use, just as the original HIG-aware
Mac was easier than Windows. Yes, it was that simple! And very
affordable, another helpful factor. Both companies have sort of lost
the plot, so besides human interface and affordability, I don't have a
dog in that race otherwise. :)
*Apple got too big for their boots and fell in love with marketing their
expensive toys to Paris Hilton knock-offs.*
Best wishes,
Curry Kenworthy
*Thanks for your best wishes: but at the moment a stiff cup of strong
black coffee and a blast of music by Thomas Arne**
**are already soothing my troubled breast.**
**
**Richmond.*
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