Hi Huw,

Just loaded Windows 7 on my Trusty Laptop and find this site is very slow, lots of Errors on Page Messages, missing pictures and just general lethargy !! Is it compatible I wonder. Also showing last posts as Yesterday PM. I just can,t believe El Annis is asleep still. !! Ha Ha Only joking mate.

Rust never sleeps!

Nothing to do with Win 7, Mate ... the site isn't performing too well at all this morning.

There's obviously some weirdness going on. Lots of 503 and 504 Errors!

We just need to be patient (as our man is on the case, no doubt)!

As they (used to) say:- "Normal service shall be resumed as soon as possible"!

Thought the official launch (win 7) was the 22nd of this month?

My No.1 Son works for Microsoft

... or, better still:- on the way out!

I have received reports that the famous TaskMaster program doesn't work with Windows 7.

I cannot confirm this at the moment, as I don't have Win 7 available to me.

My first thought was that a more recent gdiplus.dll may be necessary, but it looks like things are not going to be that simple, as (upon briefly digging about on the web) it seems that this problem has become well known amongst the Visual FoxPro (VFP) community. I have just read of one poor guy (a developer) who has an app out there with 5,000 plus paying users, many of whom have charged on and installed Win 7, only to find that the database they have always relied upon no longer works.

TM is coded using VFP 9.0, but I have seen reports that stuff written in VFP 7 works fine! So much, then, for progress!

This sort of thing is even more irritating when you consider that both VFP 9.0 and Win 7 are Microsoft products.

OK ... I shall need to look into this. But meanwhile, if you want to use TM, best stick with XP (or Win 2000). To be honest, I don't know about Vista (but haven't heard about any problems there). Can anyone put be straight on that one?

If anyone else has tried to install TM on top of Win 7, I would be pleased to hear about how it went (either on here, or by PM or email). The only other tip I have at the moment is not to install TM into the Program Files directory, but into a separate new directory instead (as mentioned, I believe, in the ReadMe.txt file).