kraut wrote: > Will Family Tree Maker 2008 run on Win 98se?? > > I tryed it and could not get it to run. Kept getting some message > about debugging something. Finally went back to 2006 version. > > TIA > >I cannot get the darned thing to run on XP! After crashing my computer on installation and a call to their 'helpline' I managed to load the programme but now when I try to run it a message says that it has a problem and has to close!! (That is the so-called upgrade version. Sorry if this is old hat but I have just joined this group.

On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 09:27:02 GMT, John East <john.east2@ntlworld.com> wrote in soc.genealogy.computing: >kraut wrote: >> Will Family Tree Maker 2008 run on Win 98se?? >> >> I tryed it and could not get it to run. Kept getting some message >> about debugging something. Finally went back to 2006 version. >> >> TIA >> >>I cannot get the darned thing to run on XP! > >After crashing my computer on installation and a call to their >'helpline' I managed to load the programme but now when I try to run it >a message says that it has a problem and has to close!! (That is the >so-called upgrade version. > >Sorry if this is old hat but I have just joined this group. Perhaps, the "upgrade" needs that you first install the original version, then to upgrade, instead of installing from scratch the upgraded version ? Also, you should start a new tread as netters will think you are running it from Win 98 (which may be not true). Denis -- 0 Denis Beauregard - /\/ Les Français d'Amérique du Nord - www.francogene.com/genealogie--quebec/ |\ French in North America before 1722 - www.francogene.com/quebec--genealogy/ / | Maintenant sur cédérom, début à 1770 (Version 2008) oo oo Now on CD-ROM, beginnings to 1770 (2008 Release)