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#202974 - 2011-08-25 10:59 PM Version 4.62: not supported on Windows 2000 anymore?
Eduard Eduard Fresh Scripter Registered: 2003-08-09 Posts: 16 Loc: Amsterdam	Hi, The doc's still state that 4.62 is supported under Windows 2000, but it doesn't work for me anymore: "KIX32.EXE is not a valid Win32 application". Can someone else please confirm this problem?
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#202975 - 2011-08-25 11:05 PM Re: Version 4.62: not supported on Windows 2000 anymore? [Re: Eduard]
Allen Allen KiX Supporter Registered: 2003-04-19 Posts: 4572 Loc: USA	You might redownload it. I think that is a different error than the one you get when it is not supported. _________________________ (... better days ahead)
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#202977 - 2011-08-25 11:14 PM Re: Version 4.62: not supported on Windows 2000 anymore? [Re: Allen]
Eduard Eduard Fresh Scripter Registered: 2003-08-09 Posts: 16 Loc: Amsterdam	No, the same binary does work OK on other OS'es, so it's not broken in that sence. The error message is translated from Dutch, so might be somewhat different in English then shown. But it doesn't work on Win 2000. Just doing "KIX32.EXE /?" in a command prompt already gives the error.
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#202978 - 2011-08-25 11:30 PM Re: Version 4.62: not supported on Windows 2000 anymore? [Re: Eduard]
Allen Allen KiX Supporter Registered: 2003-04-19 Posts: 4572 Loc: USA	I don't have 2k to test on... Ruud said he would be unavailable for comment for a couple of weeks... so hopefully someone else can confirm this. In the mean time you could do something like this in a bat file: Code: @echo off ver \| find "2000" > nul if %ERRORLEVEL% == 0 goto oldkixexe ver \| find "NT" > nul if %ERRORLEVEL% == 0 goto oldkixexe ver \| find "98" > nul if %ERRORLEVEL% == 0 goto oldkixexe ver \| find "95" > nul if %ERRORLEVEL% == 0 goto oldkixexe ::For all other OSs :start kix32.exe scriptname goto exit :oldkixexe kix32_453.exe scriptname :exit _________________________ (... better days ahead)
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#202979 - 2011-08-26 02:16 AM Re: Version 4.62: not supported on Windows 2000 anymore? [Re: Allen]
Les Les KiX Master Registered: 2001-06-11 Posts: 12734 Loc: fortfrances.on.ca	I concur that it doesn't work on W2K. KIX32.EXE is not a valid Win32 application. _________________________ Give a man a fish and he will be back for more. Slap him with a fish and he will go away forever.
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#202980 - 2011-08-26 05:38 AM

Re: Version 4.62: not supported on Windows 2000 anymore? [Re: Les]

Allen

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Registered: 2003-04-19
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Loc: USA

Here's a more updated version of the bat file... covers all OSs...

Code:

@echo off

ver | find "95" > nul
if %ERRORLEVEL% == 0 goto oldkix

ver | find "98" > nul
if %ERRORLEVEL% == 0 goto oldkix

ver | find "NT" > nul
if %ERRORLEVEL% == 0 goto oldkix

ver | find "2000" > nul
if %ERRORLEVEL% == 0 goto oldkix

for /f "tokens=2*" %%i in ('reg query "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion" /v ProductName') do set OS=%%j

echo %OS% | find "XP" > nul
if %ERRORLEVEL% == 0 goto currentkix

echo %OS% | find "2003" > nul
if %ERRORLEVEL% == 0 goto currentkix

echo %OS% | find "Vista" > nul
if %ERRORLEVEL% == 0 goto currentkix

echo %OS% | find "2008" > nul
if %ERRORLEVEL% == 0 goto currentkix

echo %OS% | find "Windows 7" > nul
if %ERRORLEVEL% == 0 goto currentkix

echo Unknown OS
pause
goto exit

:currentkix
kix32.exe scriptname
goto exit

:oldkix
kix32_453.exe scriptname


:exit

_________________________
(... better days ahead)

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#202981 - 2011-08-26 10:40 AM Re: Version 4.62: not supported on Windows 2000 anymore? [Re: Allen]
Eduard Eduard Fresh Scripter Registered: 2003-08-09 Posts: 16 Loc: Amsterdam	Thanks Les for the confirmation, and thanks Allen for your work-around. Of course Win 2000 is very old now, and not supported by Microsoft anymore. But we still have some systems running it, and these do what they need to do, so why replacing them? The work-around is possible, but will still need a lot of scripts to be modified for this. So first I would like to be sure whether it was intentional to not support Win 2000 anymore with version 4.62. If yes, then the doc's should be updated to reflect this. If not, then wasn't this tested during the beta? Edited by Eduard (2011-08-26 10:40 AM)
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#202982 - 2011-08-26 01:57 PM Re: Version 4.62: not supported on Windows 2000 anymore? [Re: Eduard]
Allen Allen KiX Supporter Registered: 2003-04-19 Posts: 4572 Loc: USA	Quote: The work-around is possible, but will still need a lot of scripts to be modified for this. Curious, how so? _________________________ (... better days ahead)
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#202983 - 2011-08-26 02:05 PM Re: Version 4.62: not supported on Windows 2000 anymore? [Re: Eduard]
Les Les KiX Master Registered: 2001-06-11 Posts: 12734 Loc: fortfrances.on.ca	Originally Posted By: Eduard If not, then wasn't this tested during the beta? I don't recall any beta testing. The liner notes only mentions it no longer working with NT4. No mention of W2K. We too still have a few W2K around with no immediate plans to upgrade them. _________________________ Give a man a fish and he will be back for more. Slap him with a fish and he will go away forever.
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#202984 - 2011-08-26 05:24 PM Re: Version 4.62: not supported on Windows 2000 anymore? [Re: Allen]
Eduard Eduard Fresh Scripter Registered: 2003-08-09 Posts: 16 Loc: Amsterdam	Originally Posted By: Allen Quote: The work-around is possible, but will still need a lot of scripts to be modified for this. Curious, how so? Sorry that was bad wording. I meant to say that we have to modify the way the scripts are called. Now most of the scripts are called directly, and this has to go through the batch file now.
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#202985 - 2011-08-26 05:28 PM Re: Version 4.62: not supported on Windows 2000 anymore? [Re: Les]
Eduard Eduard Fresh Scripter Registered: 2003-08-09 Posts: 16 Loc: Amsterdam	Originally Posted By: Les Originally Posted By: Eduard If not, then wasn't this tested during the beta? I don't recall any beta testing. There is a mention of a beta test by a limited group of users in the August 12 post from Allen in the Lounge forum.
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#202986 - 2011-08-26 05:31 PM Re: Version 4.62: not supported on Windows 2000 anymore? [Re: Eduard]
Allen Allen KiX Supporter Registered: 2003-04-19 Posts: 4572 Loc: USA	That was the release notes from Ruud, I just posted it. I don't think anyone here (kixtart.org) tested the beta. _________________________ (... better days ahead)
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#202987 - 2011-08-26 05:35 PM Re: Version 4.62: not supported on Windows 2000 anymore? [Re: Allen]
Allen Allen KiX Supporter Registered: 2003-04-19 Posts: 4572 Loc: USA	As a side note... Oh how I used to love Batch files, but if I had to write that ugly crap now, after using kix all these years, I think I would want to shoot myself. _________________________ (... better days ahead)
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#202991 - 2011-08-26 08:39 PM Re: Version 4.62: not supported on Windows 2000 anymore? [Re: Allen]
NTDOC NTDOC Administrator Registered: 2000-07-28 Posts: 11634 Loc: CA	I've just kept 4.53 in place. Don't have any systems or code that requires stuff from 4.62 yet.
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#203015 - 2011-09-01 03:49 PM Re: Version 4.62: not supported on Windows 2000 anymore? [Re: NTDOC]
Mart Mart KiX Supporter Registered: 2002-03-27 Posts: 4673 Loc: The Netherlands	We get no messages on the two Win2K servers we have left but the logon script does not start automatically. Starting it manually works just fine. _________________________ Mart - Chuck Norris once sold ebay to ebay on ebay.
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#205710 - 2012-09-10 05:31 PM Re: Version 4.62: not supported on Windows 2000 anymore? [Re: Eduard]
Ruud van Velsen Ruud van Velsen Developer Registered: 1999-05-06 Posts: 391 Loc: Amsterdam, The Netherlands	Ah yes, the issue here is that recent versions of Visual Studio no longer support NT and Windows 2000 (that is: the runtime that comes with VS 2010 and up no longer supports these OS's, and that's where the error message comes from). KiXtart itself could run fine, but it would have to be built using an old (unsupported) version of Visual Studio, which is undesirable as there have been quite a few (security) fixes in the runtime since then. Ruud
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