TSM and Windows 7 Home Premium

[rgarber]

Just got a laptop with Win 7 on it and tried to install TSM to it. Didn't work saying TSM is a 16 bit app. Well, I know that to be wrong and figured it was an installer issue so I copied over TSM from my main computer to this laptop and the program comes up. The rub in it is TSM is registered during the install so I have a demo version of TSM I can't register. Anybody have any ideas around this snafu? Thanks!

Rich

[Capt_Scarlet]

Other than TSM getting a 32 bit installer I have no idea really, but would copying the registry settings for TSM in the working version to the Win 7 one be a possibility ?

John

[Hawk]

On my system TSM is found in several places, but the registration info is only in three places (the others are in reference to projects & shortcuts)

HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Abacus/TSModeler

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Abacus/Train Sim Modeler/1.0

Then do a search for Abacus to find the other one. On my system it's listed in

[b]HKEY_USERS/S-1-5-21-(then a long string of numbers which is most likely proprietary to each individual system)/Software/Abacus/TSModeler.

The catch may be that those listings aren't there since you couldn't install it so you may have to create them, or as John mentioned - copy them from your XP machine - assuming of course that the registry is the same set up for XP and Win 7. You know how Microsoft is but I don't think the registry has changed much, if any, sine Win 95.

If you would have bought a laptop with Win 7 Pro, Enterprise, or Ultimate you could have installed Microsoft's XP mode offering and installed TSM under that, but they don't offer XP Mode for Win 7 Home.