On or about: 04-09-08  22:17, Tika Carr did engage All regarding, but not
limited to: BW Shortcut in Vista

 TC> Hello. I haven't been on BBSs in *ages* but I do remember this echo.
 TC> :) In all that time I've had Windows machines since then and even been
 TC> using some linux. 

...And look at you now! 

 TC> Anyway, I just recently was given a laptop computer with Windows Vista
 TC> Home  Premium on it and really like it (my personal preference but I do
 TC> have other versions of Windows on other PCs that I like as well). 

...Getting free SWAG!  *Good* SWAG too!!!

 TC> While setting up my Vista-based laptop (which I use the most), I tried
 TC> to make a shortcut from the BlueWave program in C:\BWAVE to a folder in
 TC> my start menu (NOT the All Users, but my user start menu in
 TC> %APPDATA%/Roaming/etc. etc....) I kept getting an error of which I
 TC> forgot. Even if I made a shortcut in the C:\BWAVE dir to the BW program
 TC> and then made a shortcut to THAT in my start menu that didn't work.

The "Start>Settings>Taskbar & Start Menu" is no longer
there? (Why should there be *any* congruity?)

One thing that peaked my suspicion, was your path to C:\BWAVE. I do believe
you have to be in the directory, or have the directory in your PATH
statement before it'll work. (Needing to find the .cfg, or some-such.) With
the old *.pif system, there's "Working", where you spec the
directory to work in when running the program. At times, I used a batch
file to:

        C:^M
        CD \util\bw^M
        BWAVE386.EXE^M"

Can you right-click on the desktop, and create a shortcut there? Maybe
there's an entry for the "Working" directory there. Maybe
dictating it as a "command.com /p BWAVE386.EXE", but I've almost
no recollection of those workings.

 TC> I figured out a work-around. I created a batch file in C:\BWAVE that
 TC> starts BlueWave. Then I made a shortcut to THAT batch file. It worked!
 TC> I even set the shortcut up with the Blue Wave icon.

 TC> I don't know why it did that but at least this is one way to get Blue
 TC> Wave working in Vista. And I'm at least glad of that! :)

 TC> So I thought I'd share it here, in case anyone might find this info.
 TC> useful (now or maybe in the future).

How nice to read your words, Tika. There's a fellow here, that was just
moving to Vista, but I'm not sure how his progress was progressing. Can you
check back later?


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