[WriteLog] WriteLog problems on Windows 7 64-bit

[Jim Orcheson]

Thanks to everyone who provided suggestions on my problem. Wayne KD3TB 
pointed out the cause of my problems from which I have learned:
There is a difference between installing and running a program as 
Administrator, and doing the same using an account with Admin privileges!!!!

Anyway, after uninstalling everything and reinstalling as Administrator, 
then using Run as Administrator, everything works. I didn't need to do 
either of these for any other program that I have installed.

Thanks again to everyone who responded.

73, Jim  VA3HJ

Jim Orcheson wrote:
> Well I thought I had everything working because I made sure that both 
> rig control and CW/RTTY worked, so it was a shock when I tried to use 
> WriteLog during the RTTY Roundup contest over the weekend.
>
> After entering the first contact and hitting the enter key, the contact 
> would not save and displayed the message:
> Field QTH is invalid!
> This occured whether I enter a valid state/province or a number.
>
> I did some investigating and have found the following:
> 1. File -> Web Update Data Files: When I click the Download button, a 
> MessageBox flashes and then another is displayed with the not very 
> useful message: Download failed!  Looking in the help files there is an 
> entry for web update, but it only talks about what happens when the 
> download succeeds, so I have no idea why it failed, or where to look for 
> information on why it failed.
>
> 2. The country list did download and install properly.
>
> 3. Contest -> Show Multipliers brings up a window that is about 8 lines 
> high and many hundreds/thousands of characters wide. I don't know how 
> wide it is, but its more than 10 screens wide. I gave up trying to get 
> to the right edge of the window. The window is empty.
>
> 4. Super Check Partial does not show any callsigns as I enter a call.
>
> 5. I used fldigi for the contest, then exported the log to and ADIF file 
> and imported it into WriteLog. DX stations were recognized and 
> multipliers were calculated properly, but not for states and provinces, 
> so Writelog doesn't recognize states and provinces as multipliers.
>
> 6. After I imported the log from fldigi, Super Check Partial would 
> display callsigns that were in the log, but not others.
>
> 5. I checked namedmul.ini and there are entries for RTTY Roundup and 
> they seem valid.
>
> My setup is as follows:
> Windows 7 64-bit
> WriteLog 10.74J installed in C:\WriteLog
> MMTTY installed in C:\Program Files (x86)\MMTTY
> MMTTYPluginForWritelog installed in C:\WriteLog\Programs
>
> Is there some quirk with 64-bit Windows that I have failed to 
> comprehend? Where do I go from here?
>
> 73, Jim  VA3HJ
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