Yes, loaded Vue 6I (no, haven't been able to afford the upgrade to 7I yet) onto my new computer - Vista Home 64bit - and I played with Vue, then the next day, turned it on again, and I needed to Activate it again.

For giggles, I did it, then turned it off, then turned it back on again - sure enough - I needed to Activate it again.

Any ideas? Anyone else run into this problem?

Thanks for any advice, or to just graon with me.

-Lew ;-)
 

I'm actually on a mac not a PC, but it has been mentioned several times - on vista you need to run as administrator for the vue to be able to save the registration info.  you might also need to turn of some  'safety' features - I'm not sure, search the forum for registration problems/vista

Ah the pleasures of MS vista:)

Hello,
 Yep, I've had this happen a couple of times. I'm running Vue6,Vue6i, and Vue7c on my machine with dual boot WinXP Pro and WinXP64.

Vue, all of them, put a file called Vue----.reg in the windows folder on your boot drive and for some reason it get corrupted. When you get Vue running, make a copy of these file(s) . If it happens again, just replace them with the backups. This works for me but not sure if Vista is different or not.

Now if I can just figure out why Vue6i has started crashing on ecosystem renders 8-(

Later...

You probably need ot turn "UAC" off, go read up about it,
basically Vista has a lot of security stuff ot stop the ignorant folks out there screwing their computer up so much
(I used to repair PCs, you wouldn't believe WTH folk install, trashing their system, after you've told 'em not to, 'cause they crashed it the week before and had it in for repiar then! lol)

However, UAC interferes with Vue and other apps, as well as being a pain in the arse (but does make yer system more secure, moslty from personal error).
So, turn it off.

Or if yer worried about that:
run Vue as "Administrator", right click the Vue icon, then select "Run as Administrator"

I turn off UAC,as my choice :)

Sweet! Thanks folks!
Gonna look up UAC and some other security things. I know you can turn of the "allow/cancel" thing - just haven't gotten around to it yet.

I also think it's because of this that my copy of XSI 4.2 (written before Vista was even a thought) won't run. It might just not run on Vista, but I'd like to get it through the install at least to find out!

Thanks again-
-Lew

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