Windows ME

system · October 3, 2001, 9:14am

I forgot to tell you I am on Vantage 3.0. We are upgrading to 5 this week I will then see if ME works

Rich

Original Message:
-----------------
From: Troy Funte tfunte@...
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 19:00:02 -0400
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Vantage] Windows ME

Epicor's official statement is that they do not support ME with Vantage because it is not a robust business operating system. We feebly tried it on one ME machine, and ended up reformatting and putting Win95 on it - which is our current policy if we get a machine with ME on it. We are looking into upgrading all our workstations to Win2000Pro (or XP Pro??).

I did hear (I think) of someone getting ME to work with Vantage.

Troy Funte
Liberty Electronics

system · August 8, 2001, 2:56pm

I have a Manager here who brought in a PC for use in his area, and it is
configured with Windows ME. Anything I should be concerned about?

Bob Goss
Controller
BC Instruments

system · August 8, 2001, 3:02pm

Yes, You can't run Vantage on Windows ME. Epicor doesn't support it, and we've tried and can't get it to work either. We ended up installing Win95 on the new ME computers we've received.

Troy

system · August 8, 2001, 3:04pm

YES YES YES YES YES

MS-ME is designed for "Home" use. We have had nothing but trouble trying
to configure ME machines for RAS dial up. MS has gone so far as to tell us
that we should JUST go buy W2K-Pro and install it if we want to be part of
our network.

Todd Anderson

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Goss [mailto:bobg@...]
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 1:55 PM
To: 'vantage@yahoogroups.com'
Subject: [Vantage] Windows ME

I have a Manager here who brought in a PC for use in his area, and it is
configured with Windows ME. Anything I should be concerned about?

Bob Goss
Controller
BC Instruments

Useful links for the Yahoo!Groups Vantage Board are: ( Note: You must have
already linked your email address to a yahoo id to enable access. )
(1) To access the Files Section of our Yahoo!Group for Report Builder and
Crystal Reports and other 'goodies', please goto:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/files/.
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/files/.>
(2) To search through old msg's goto:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/messages
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/messages>
(3) To view links to Vendors that provide Vantage services goto:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/links
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/links>

Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service
<http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> .

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

system · August 8, 2001, 3:17pm

I completely agree!!! The owner has a ME at home and I have had to go to her house and configure her computer twice now because ME doesn't like certain software and it's simply a pain in the "yahoo"! I would definately not recommend it for business/network use!!

Wendy Bowen
Network Administrator
Schmald Tool & Die, Inc.
(810) 743-1600 ext.323
wpursche@...

system · August 8, 2001, 3:20pm

I've never been able to get vANTAGE to run on ME. The answer book on the
Epicor website says that it won't support vANTAGE on ME.

Shirley H. Graver
(End User)
Systems Administrator
Rubber Associates Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Goss [mailto:bobg@...]
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 2:55 PM
To: 'vantage@yahoogroups.com'
Subject: [Vantage] Windows ME

I have a Manager here who brought in a PC for use in his area, and it is
configured with Windows ME. Anything I should be concerned about?

Bob Goss
Controller
BC Instruments

Useful links for the Yahoo!Groups Vantage Board are: ( Note: You must have
already linked your email address to a yahoo id to enable access. )
(1) To access the Files Section of our Yahoo!Group for Report Builder and
Crystal Reports and other 'goodies', please goto:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/files/.
(2) To search through old msg's goto:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/messages
(3) To view links to Vendors that provide Vantage services goto:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/links

Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service
<http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> .

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

system · August 8, 2001, 4:51pm

What version of Vantage can't you get to run? V3.. seems to run just fine
on ME - I have 2 workstations with ME and had no problems installing/running
Vantage.

Jim Stetter
-----Original Message-----
From: Troy Funte [mailto:tfunte@...]
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 3:07 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Vantage] Windows ME

Yes, You can't run Vantage on Windows ME. Epicor doesn't support it, and
we've tried and can't get it to work either. We ended up installing Win95
on the new ME computers we've received.

Troy

system · August 8, 2001, 5:19pm

Vantage 5.0.

system · October 1, 2001, 6:08pm

This may have been discussed before but I will ask anyways. Has anyone set
up Vantage 5.00. with Win ME. I have new machines that have ME on them and
I am getting a service pack error when I am doing the client install. It
indicates that I don't meet the service pack 1 requirements. Is there a
work around or I S.O.L on giving these new machines to Vantage Users. Is
there even a service pack 1 out there yet!!!!

Jason Ford
Pride Signs
Cambridge ON.
www.pridesigns.com
jford@...
519-220-0505

system · October 1, 2001, 7:00pm

Epicor's official statement is that they do not support ME with Vantage because it is not a robust business operating system. We feebly tried it on one ME machine, and ended up reformatting and putting Win95 on it - which is our current policy if we get a machine with ME on it. We are looking into upgrading all our workstations to Win2000Pro (or XP Pro??).

I did hear (I think) of someone getting ME to work with Vantage.

Troy Funte
Liberty Electronics

system · October 1, 2001, 7:45pm

Troy and Jason:

We have several Windows 2000 Professional workstations and they run Vantage
great-but I've yet to hear of anyone being able to get Windows ME to run
Vantage. Have heard several hard-luck stories, though.

Lydia

-----Original Message-----
From: Troy Funte [mailto:tfunte@...]
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 4:00 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Vantage] Windows ME

Epicor's official statement is that they do not support ME with Vantage
because it is not a robust business operating system. We feebly tried it on
one ME machine, and ended up reformatting and putting Win95 on it - which is
our current policy if we get a machine with ME on it. We are looking into
upgrading all our workstations to Win2000Pro (or XP Pro??).

I did hear (I think) of someone getting ME to work with Vantage.

Troy Funte
Liberty Electronics

system · October 1, 2001, 10:01pm

Hi,

Follow the below instruction and it works well. No issues. Pls. let me
know if you need any clarification on the same.

1) Open the registry editor by going to [START] --> Run, type in:
regedit

2) Go to the Registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION

3) Locate the subkey:

SubVersionNumber with the value ""

4) Double click on the subkey.

5) Add (a) without the brackets.

6) Click ok. The Registry key should look like:

SubVersionNumber "a"

Regards,
Ellappan.
Ver.5.0331

Message: 21
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 18:09:04 -0400
From: yahoopridesigns <yahoo@...>
Subject: Windows ME

This may have been discussed before but I will ask anyways. Has anyone
set
up Vantage 5.00. with Win ME. I have new machines that have ME on them
and
I am getting a service pack error when I am doing the client install.
It
indicates that I don't meet the service pack 1 requirements. Is there a
work around or I S.O.L on giving these new machines to Vantage Users.
Is
there even a service pack 1 out there yet!!!!

Jason Ford
Pride Signs
Cambridge ON.
www.pridesigns.com
jford@...
519-220-0505

system · October 2, 2001, 12:54am

i have Windows 98 SE (second edition) on my workstation which has only one
problem- it will not generate financial statements out of vantage 4.00.904.
i have a second workstation in my office that has Win 98 (first edition from
november 1998) that runs statements and everything else just fine (i use it
for my test database simulations too). i guess it was a year ago when i got
my new 'SE' workstation and at that time epicor told me this was a known
issue with that version of vantage and 'SE'. anyone know if that has been
fixed? we're upgrading to v5 next month, maybe that'll do the trick. (?)
james

-----Original Message-----
From: Lydia Coffman [mailto:lcoffman@...]
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 5:41 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Windows ME

Troy and Jason:

We have several Windows 2000 Professional workstations and they run Vantage
great-but I've yet to hear of anyone being able to get Windows ME to run
Vantage. Have heard several hard-luck stories, though.

Lydia

-----Original Message-----
From: Troy Funte [mailto:tfunte@...]
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 4:00 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Vantage] Windows ME

Epicor's official statement is that they do not support ME with Vantage
because it is not a robust business operating system. We feebly tried it on
one ME machine, and ended up reformatting and putting Win95 on it - which is
our current policy if we get a machine with ME on it. We are looking into
upgrading all our workstations to Win2000Pro (or XP Pro??).

I did hear (I think) of someone getting ME to work with Vantage.

Troy Funte
Liberty Electronics

system · October 2, 2001, 8:24am

I did the registry change and Progress and Vantage worked thanks for the
advice.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ellappan [mailto:ellapan@...]
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 10:03 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] RE:Windows ME

Hi,

Follow the below instruction and it works well. No issues. Pls. let me
know if you need any clarification on the same.

1) Open the registry editor by going to [START] --> Run, type in:
regedit

2) Go to the Registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION

3) Locate the subkey:

SubVersionNumber with the value ""

4) Double click on the subkey.

5) Add (a) without the brackets.

6) Click ok. The Registry key should look like:

SubVersionNumber "a"

Regards,
Ellappan.
Ver.5.0331

Message: 21
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 18:09:04 -0400
From: yahoopridesigns <yahoo@...>
Subject: Windows ME

This may have been discussed before but I will ask anyways. Has anyone
set
up Vantage 5.00. with Win ME. I have new machines that have ME on them
and
I am getting a service pack error when I am doing the client install.
It
indicates that I don't meet the service pack 1 requirements. Is there a
work around or I S.O.L on giving these new machines to Vantage Users.
Is
there even a service pack 1 out there yet!!!!

Jason Ford
Pride Signs
Cambridge ON.
www.pridesigns.com
jford@...
519-220-0505

Useful links for the Yahoo!Groups Vantage Board are: ( Note: You must have
already linked your email address to a yahoo id to enable access. )
(1) To access the Files Section of our Yahoo!Group for Report Builder and
Crystal Reports and other 'goodies', please goto:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/files/.
(2) To search through old msg's goto:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/messages
(3) To view links to Vendors that provide Vantage services goto:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/links

Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

system · October 2, 2001, 9:11am

We're currently using Vantage 4.0 with Windows 2000 pro with no problems.

-----Original Message-----
From: Troy Funte [mailto:tfunte@...]
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 6:00 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Vantage] Windows ME

Epicor's official statement is that they do not support ME with Vantage
because it is not a robust business operating system. We feebly tried it on
one ME machine, and ended up reformatting and putting Win95 on it - which is
our current policy if we get a machine with ME on it. We are looking into
upgrading all our workstations to Win2000Pro (or XP Pro??).

I did hear (I think) of someone getting ME to work with Vantage.

Troy Funte
Liberty Electronics

system · October 2, 2001, 9:35am

Jason,

We have now run into 3 machines running ME. All of which were purchased by
employees who then wanted to dial into our network so they could access
email, files, and also run PcAnywhere to their desktops.

The first time my Network Tech and I just thought we were STUPID because we
could not get ME to authenticate to the network. The second time we figured
we were just in the wrong business. The third time we called MS to find out
what the heck we were missing. ( Ok, so we're a little slow ... )

Bottom line - MS tech support told us that ME is not a VALID client for a NT
or W2K server network. The same holds true for the XP-Home operating
system. MS considers these "Home" based operating systems and will NOT work
as clients for corporate networks. MS's suggestion ? The company should
purchase Win-2000-Pro or XP-Pro and install them on these PC's. When I
pointed out that the PC's don't belong to the company and that installing a
different operating system might make getting support from the PC vendor
"Difficult" ... they agreed.

Ugh.

So, for your corporate PC's and for employees who want to dial in from home
the "Valid" operating systems are - DOS, W95, W98, W98-SE, NT-WS,
Win-2000-Pro, Win-XP-Pro. Avoid ME and Win-XP-Home at ALL costs.

Technically speaking - ME and XP-Home CAN dial into a RAS modem. They will
connect just fine. They just can't access your servers. They can, however,
use PcAnywhere to dial a desktop PC. So one solution is to have some
desktop PC's that are valid network clients that home based employees can
PcAnywhere into in order to access email and files.

Do I consider this an incredibly stupid move by MS ? Yup ...

Todd Anderson

-----Original Message-----
From: yahoopridesigns [mailto:yahoo@...]
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 5:09 PM
To: 'vantage@yahoogroups.com'
Subject: [Vantage] Windows ME

This may have been discussed before but I will ask anyways. Has anyone set
up Vantage 5.00. with Win ME. I have new machines that have ME on them and
I am getting a service pack error when I am doing the client install. It
indicates that I don't meet the service pack 1 requirements. Is there a
work around or I S.O.L on giving these new machines to Vantage Users. Is
there even a service pack 1 out there yet!!!!

Jason Ford
Pride Signs
Cambridge ON.
www.pridesigns.com
jford@...
519-220-0505

Yahoo! Groups Sponsor

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Useful links for the Yahoo!Groups Vantage Board are: ( Note: You must have
already linked your email address to a yahoo id to enable access. )
(1) To access the Files Section of our Yahoo!Group for Report Builder and
Crystal Reports and other 'goodies', please goto:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/files/.
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/files/.>
(2) To search through old msg's goto:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/messages
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/messages>
(3) To view links to Vendors that provide Vantage services goto:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/links
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/links>

Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service
<http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> .

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

system · October 2, 2001, 10:09am

Todd,

So far so good with the ME. I got it to talk to the network pretty easily
and I install Vantage 5 with the help of the registry edit. I also have
AutoCAD 2002 running. Currently I am running a stress test on the machine
to determine if it will fail or get any corruptions. Its been running for
about 30mins and everthing is working great. Hopefully everything stays in
tact because I like the look and the quickness of the product. Side note: I
am also running Office XP. I don't see alot different there. Hey when you
jump you better jump high.

Jason

-----Original Message-----
From: Todd Anderson [mailto:tanderson@...]
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 9:34 AM
To: 'vantage@yahoogroups.com'
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Windows ME

Jason,

We have now run into 3 machines running ME. All of which were purchased by
employees who then wanted to dial into our network so they could access
email, files, and also run PcAnywhere to their desktops.

The first time my Network Tech and I just thought we were STUPID because we
could not get ME to authenticate to the network. The second time we figured
we were just in the wrong business. The third time we called MS to find out
what the heck we were missing. ( Ok, so we're a little slow ... )

Bottom line - MS tech support told us that ME is not a VALID client for a NT
or W2K server network. The same holds true for the XP-Home operating
system. MS considers these "Home" based operating systems and will NOT work
as clients for corporate networks. MS's suggestion ? The company should
purchase Win-2000-Pro or XP-Pro and install them on these PC's. When I
pointed out that the PC's don't belong to the company and that installing a
different operating system might make getting support from the PC vendor
"Difficult" ... they agreed.

Ugh.

So, for your corporate PC's and for employees who want to dial in from home
the "Valid" operating systems are - DOS, W95, W98, W98-SE, NT-WS,
Win-2000-Pro, Win-XP-Pro. Avoid ME and Win-XP-Home at ALL costs.

Technically speaking - ME and XP-Home CAN dial into a RAS modem. They will
connect just fine. They just can't access your servers. They can, however,
use PcAnywhere to dial a desktop PC. So one solution is to have some
desktop PC's that are valid network clients that home based employees can
PcAnywhere into in order to access email and files.

Do I consider this an incredibly stupid move by MS ? Yup ...

Todd Anderson

-----Original Message-----
From: yahoopridesigns [mailto:yahoo@...]
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 5:09 PM
To: 'vantage@yahoogroups.com'
Subject: [Vantage] Windows ME

This may have been discussed before but I will ask anyways. Has anyone set
up Vantage 5.00. with Win ME. I have new machines that have ME on them and
I am getting a service pack error when I am doing the client install. It
indicates that I don't meet the service pack 1 requirements. Is there a
work around or I S.O.L on giving these new machines to Vantage Users. Is
there even a service pack 1 out there yet!!!!

Jason Ford
Pride Signs
Cambridge ON.
www.pridesigns.com
jford@...
519-220-0505

Yahoo! Groups Sponsor

ADVERTISEMENT

<http://us.adserver.yahoo.com/l?M=168643.1620686.3168692.1261774/D=egroupmai
l/S=1705007183:HM/A=799560/rand=547212544>

Useful links for the Yahoo!Groups Vantage Board are: ( Note: You must have
already linked your email address to a yahoo id to enable access. )
(1) To access the Files Section of our Yahoo!Group for Report Builder and
Crystal Reports and other 'goodies', please goto:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/files/.
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/files/.>
(2) To search through old msg's goto:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/messages
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/messages>
(3) To view links to Vendors that provide Vantage services goto:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/links
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/links>

Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service
<http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> .

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Useful links for the Yahoo!Groups Vantage Board are: ( Note: You must have
already linked your email address to a yahoo id to enable access. )
(1) To access the Files Section of our Yahoo!Group for Report Builder and
Crystal Reports and other 'goodies', please goto:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/files/.
(2) To search through old msg's goto:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/messages
(3) To view links to Vendors that provide Vantage services goto:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/links

Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

system · October 3, 2001, 9:08am

I have ME on 3 workstations and have no problem. I have only put it on station that I have had problems with, only because of the problems other people are having
Rich

Original Message:
-----------------
From: Troy Funte tfunte@...
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 19:00:02 -0400
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Vantage] Windows ME

Epicor's official statement is that they do not support ME with Vantage because it is not a robust business operating system. We feebly tried it on one ME machine, and ended up reformatting and putting Win95 on it - which is our current policy if we get a machine with ME on it. We are looking into upgrading all our workstations to Win2000Pro (or XP Pro??).

I did hear (I think) of someone getting ME to work with Vantage.

Troy Funte
Liberty Electronics