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Dick Watson
I have run into an application that refuses to install on anything but Vista
even though updated versions of it run fine on XP. The updated versions
(support updates) refuse to install on a machine that doesn't already have
the basic package installed. So I want to find a way to "fake out" the
installer to get the code __installed__ under XP so I can the install the
code that is known to run on XP.
(The vendor is Sony. The app is their imaging hardware utility. The version
that came with the camcorder was an XP/W2K version of a prior generation of
the utility that won't operate on Vista. They offer a Vista-only version of
the next generation tool that checks the original CD--presumably just for
license verification--before installing on Vista only just to accomodate
Vista users. They also offer lots of newer versions of the new generation
tool that run on either XP or Vista but check for entitlement by looking for
pre-installation of the new generation tool. My suspicion is that the point
upgrade from the old tool to the new tool that they do allow may or may not
function under XP but the installer is just trying to avoid giving away a
newer product to somebody that has the choice of using the original. My
objective would be to get the "Vista" "only" version installed just long
enough to upgrade it with one of the upgrades documented as working on XP.)
Any suggestions would be greatly welcome. Sony Support wants XP users to buy
a newer camera or use nothing but the older and essentially unsupported
software instead.
even though updated versions of it run fine on XP. The updated versions
(support updates) refuse to install on a machine that doesn't already have
the basic package installed. So I want to find a way to "fake out" the
installer to get the code __installed__ under XP so I can the install the
code that is known to run on XP.
(The vendor is Sony. The app is their imaging hardware utility. The version
that came with the camcorder was an XP/W2K version of a prior generation of
the utility that won't operate on Vista. They offer a Vista-only version of
the next generation tool that checks the original CD--presumably just for
license verification--before installing on Vista only just to accomodate
Vista users. They also offer lots of newer versions of the new generation
tool that run on either XP or Vista but check for entitlement by looking for
pre-installation of the new generation tool. My suspicion is that the point
upgrade from the old tool to the new tool that they do allow may or may not
function under XP but the installer is just trying to avoid giving away a
newer product to somebody that has the choice of using the original. My
objective would be to get the "Vista" "only" version installed just long
enough to upgrade it with one of the upgrades documented as working on XP.)
Any suggestions would be greatly welcome. Sony Support wants XP users to buy
a newer camera or use nothing but the older and essentially unsupported
software instead.