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Sage Line 50 and Windows 7 64bit

Wayne — Tue, 11 May 2010 15:18:52 +0000

Ran into an issue with 64 bit windows and Sage Line 50. We use excel to suck data from sage for our stock, accounts, etc… All of the spreadsheets that we have rely on the ODBC connector but it wouldn’t work, even when we tried to configure it via the 32 ODBC control panel applet. I had another look at it today and a little Google later I found this link.

Here’s what I got from it. Browse to the C:\Windows\systwow64 folder and run odbcad32.exe, you should now be able to configure the path to your sage data ase before. This basically fixed the issue, seems to me that Microsoft have some more work do to.

I belive that this is only an issue with Windows 7 64 bit. I have installed Windows 7 (64 bit) clean and then installed Sage on top of the clean Windows 7, then Excel 2010 (it was Excel 2007 when I first had the issue) and it worked frist time so if you having issues, a bit drastic but maybe a format reinstall will work. If you go down the reinstall route ensure that you have a fully tested backup.

UPDATE (16/07/2010):

Put the insturctions for the fix on this post, to save a click.

Would you like a video demo? If so then please leave a comment telling me so, if I receive enough then I, i’ll do it.

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HDMI Screen Resolution

Wayne Taylor — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 16:02:10 +0000

I plugged my Laptop into my TV (42” Sharp 1080i) and I received this: -

As you can see the taskbar and the left edge aren’t visible, after playing around with screen resolution and not getting anywhere I decided to take a look at my remote. I found an option which allowed me to put the TV into under scan which resolved this issue.

Problem fixed, I searched for this and didn’t come across that much that helped….. so I hope this does.

Wikipedia article for further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underscan

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Virtual Box

Wayne Taylor — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:57:54 +0000

So I came across Sun’s Virtual Box software some time ago and tried booting a 64bit OS on it which at the time seemed a little buggy.

I decided that I would give it another go and it seems to just work….. and running on Windows 7 as well.

See for yourself…..

So if Sun can do this and give it a way for free, why can’t Microsoft enable Windows Virtual PC to have 64bit support?

Update: Download link http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

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Windows 7 Family Pack

Wayne Taylor — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:14:33 +0000

Just reading on the Windows Team Blog, that we are indeed going to be able to purchase the Windows 7 Family Pack here in the UK.

This will allow 3 PC’s to be upgraded in the home. This is good news, however the bad news, is that’s it’s only going to be on sale for a limited period, this should be on sale full stop.

Windows Team Blog

Update: PC Pro have pricing.

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Virtual PC x64 Support

Wayne Taylor — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:10:06 +0000

I’ve e-mail and spoken with every Microsoft employee that I’ve come across and there not talking about Virtual PC x64 Support.

I’ve been told to wait for PDC. So my best guess is the Virtual/Hyper-V is going to be a built in option to Windows 7.

We’ll have to wait and see thou….

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