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Similar to my experience as I recently installed TS2000i on my Acer 1810TZ
ultraportable that is came with windows 7 x 64bit installed. I have not done
any windows updates as genearlly try to avoid these. My main desktop is
running windows 2000 SP4 and at this stage cannot see any reason to upgrade
it.
I did not bother with any compatibility mode and did a normal install from
the SP5 CD as I initially wanted to see if it would work. The installation
went flawlessly and quickly and from memory much shorter than on my desktop.
I installed it for EOD testing on some strategies etc while away from my
desktop. So far it is working fine and have not encountered any problems. I
have had the same result with Metastock v10.0 (which I only use for stock
explorations) which I was told would not work and would need to upgrade to
v11.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hinton Clabaugh" <hgciii@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "omega list" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 6:23 PM
Subject: Windows 7 & TradeStation 2000i
> I just installed TS 2000i on Windows 7 Professional on a Dell Inspiron
> 1501 laptop, and thought some on the list might be interested in how
> it went.
>
> The Windows install was surprisingly easy and fast, far superior to
> previous editions of Windows. However, there were problems with XP
> Mode, the feature that runs XP as a virtual operating system for older
> apps. It began throwing of error messages during Windows Update (you
> need to run XP updates for the virtual OS as well as for Windows 7
> itself). When I attempted to install TradeStation, toward the end I
> got repeated error messages about unreadable files, and then the
> install failed.
>
> I gave up on running TS in XP mode, and installed it in Windows 7
> proper. Then I right-clicked all the .exe files in the program folder
> and enabled XP SP3 compatibility mode for each. That did the trick.
> Everything is running great.
>
> Perhaps my two and a half year old hardware had problems with the
> virtual OS, though I do have 2 GB of RAM and a dual 1.8 MHZ processor.
>
> I'm still running TS flawlessly on XP Home edition on my main desktop
> trading computer.
>
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