Powerdesk-HF and XP

[alewisa]

Any here had issues with the 1.04 drivers and .NET 1.1? There is a thread in the Matrox support forums, but its gone silent. (and the forum has been shut for a while...)

More to the point, anyone know of a resolution other than a re-install of XP?

Brgds
Alan

[XHotKolaX]

I'm pretty sure most of us here never installed Net1.1 to begin with. Also, Haig come here rather quickly and told us about the problem so many of us don't have that problem.

[Peter Aragon]

Since .NET 1.1 isn't a replacement for 1.0, people who install .NET 1.1 don't realise that PowerDesk is still using the 1.0 version. That's (gladly) the advantage of side-by-side versioning. For people moaning about wasted diskspace, that was the reason back in the 90's with Windows 95 shared dll's to have programs share resources to limit the necessary diskspace because disk storage was still very expensive (I remember my WD 850MB HD costing the same as a 160GB disk at the moment).

In the future you'll see bigger installs just because as a programmer and software company you don't want to rely on future versions of shared resources still being compatible with your applications. Every dll will be put together with the application so that applications will run more predictable in the real world.

If you have Windows Server 2003 that ships with .NET 1.1, simply install .NET 1.0 and the the 1.0SP2 update. Don't forget to run dxdiag and enable all DirectX features (DirectDraw and Direct3D)

Good luck

[alewisa]

Unfortunately, there is an issue if you installed NET 1.1 then tried to install the 1.04 driver.... simply removing .NET 1.1 does not solve it. Neither does a total removal of 1.0, 1.1 and the Matrox drivers. That's my experience, anyway.