Problems installing Actinic on Windows 2000

[skinnybloke]

Hi - I have just installed Actinic Business v5 on a PC cleanly built with Windows 2000. I have installed Actinic under the Administrator logon and it works ok.

I actually want to be able to run Actinic from an individual user logon. When I try to do this I get the error "Error locating the 'original' directory" on startup and Actinic then closes down.

Does anybody know what I have done wrong?

[Jan]

You have to install it when you are logged on as the user that is going to use it. You get that error because it registry entries are made under HEY_CURRENT_USER in the registry and those entries are specific to each logged on user.

[skinnybloke]

Thanks Jan...

[skinnybloke]

...a question I've just thought of...

Can we export the Reg key from the current user and import it into all users?

[Jan]

Quite probably. I haven't tried it but I can't see why it wouldn't work.

Regards,

[Jan]

I've just noticed that the ODBC connections are also set up as user DSNs so may well have to do the same for these as well. The ODBC settings for users are stored in

HKEY_USERS/<id>/Software/ODBC/ODBC.ini/ActinicCatalog6
HKEY_USERS/<id>/Software/ODBC/ODBC.ini/ActinicOriginal6
HKEY_USERS/<id>/Software/ODBC/ODBC.ini/ActinicSimpleShipping6

Where <id> is number that looks like a class-id.

If you are lucky you might just be able to set up a system DSN for all users to use instead.