Thread: Windows Vista Issue Vista x64 Crash Accessing the Settings Panel
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Old 06-05-2009, 12:58 PM   #36
Jim Sachs
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Let's clear up a few points.

1. The time issue was never an issue. The versions downloaded from SereneScreen.com will not expire. The versions downloaded from fish-byte.com will expire after 28 days, Key or no Key.

2. The debugger is part of the entire Visual C development suite. Even if someone sent you an illegal copy, installing it and setting it up would be a major job, and it wouldn't work without the MA3 source code, anyway. Thanks for your offer to help, but the problem would need to happen here on my machine within the development environment, while I try a thousand different things to fix it.

3. Screensavers are .scr files. You can put them anywhere you want on your computer and double-click them to run them, just like an .exe file. You can also put them in your Windows/System32 folder and have them come up automatically as screensavers. The installer is an .exe file which contains both the MarineAquarium3.scr file and some extra code to unpack it and place it in the proper directory. The .zip files on fish-byte.com are just a WinZipped copy of MA3, which you can unpack anywhere you wish on your computer.

(Note: Some of the weird new operating systems, like Vista64, use a different folder from the traditional Windows/System32 for screensavers.)
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