Windows XP and Vista Installation Issues

Some Windows XP and Windows Vista machines have problems running the Operation World installer.

Computer Operating System

The Operation World CD-ROM is not intended to run on a Microsoft Windows version earlier than Windows 95 or a Macintosh version earlier than the PowerPC. Search capability on the Mac requires a fairly modern machine (200MHz PPC with 128MB memory and MacOS 8.1).

Today's Prayer Summary somtimes doesn't work on Macintosh

The Today's Prayer Summ. icon on the CD fails on single-digit days of the month. A patch is available.

Browser Software

The Operation World CD-ROM is not intended for use with browser software earlier than Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or Netscape Navigator 4.0.

Operation World Database Issues

1. Overlayed Windows: When the user presses a button on the toolbar to create a new data view, the newly created window exactly overlays any previous window (including a window used to select the country, denomination, etc.). To solve this problem, click in the bar at the top of newly-created window and drag to another location on the screen to expose the underlying window.

2. Installation with Existing Borland Database Engine (BDE): If the installer finds an existing software installation has installed the Borland Database Engine (BDE), the Operation World database will report missing modules and will not run. A patch for this problem is available.

3. Non-administrative users on NT/2000/XP systems: The OW database must be installed by a user with Administrator permissions on these systems. After installation, the database will not run for other users. A patch for this problem is available.

4. (Non)Installation on Windows XP and Vista We have not been able to get the database application (released in 2001) to run on any Windows Vista (released in 2007) system. It runs on many, but not all, Windows XP (released in 2002) systems. The installer for currently-shipping version 1.02 Operation World CD-ROM does not offer to install the database application on either Windows XP or Vista. Windows Vista and XP users are encouraged to use the data in the Operation World database using your own database (e.g. Microsoft Access) or spreadsheet (e.g. Microsoft Excel) software to work with the .dbf database tables in the \database folder of the CD-ROM. If you have version 1.02 and wish to try running the database application under Windows XP on an unsupported basis, use the following procedure:

• Make sure you are logged on in an account with administrator privileges
• Create an empty folder on your hard disk
• Copy the entire contents of the Operation World CD-ROM to the folder you created
• Download setup.exe (right click and save target/link as) to the folder you created, replacing the existing setup.exe. (Depending on your browser settings, you may need to move the file from your default download location to the folder you created)
• Double-click setup.exe in the folder you created to install Operation World. Select the option to install the database when prompted