On my notebook my boot drive is drive F and NOT drive C, as I suffered
a hard drive crash and when I switched to the new drive and installed
windows on it XP's install and the hardware decided my boot drive
would henceforth be drive F. Their trial software will NOT install or
run if the boot drive is NOT drive C. They have hardcoded, in it, that
one file, msmd6.dll, must be installed on c:\windows\system32 and, of
course, my system does not have that at all, so the file, which is
required, is not installed. I have written them about this problem and
await their answer.

Apparently Top Spin managed to install that one file, so if he cares
to send me a copy privately [as an attachment] I will install it on
drive F and let you know my view of the code.

From the advert on their web site it appears that the non-pro version
does almost all of what the pro version does, but it seems not to be
able to convert non-US volume to non-US weight . . . they have
restricted this to US volume to US weight conversions :-) . . .
proving once more that they have no imagination or knowledge of the
rest of the world. Anyway, I too will advise what I find out.

They advertise that they import MasterCook recipes from versions 1 to
version 6... and since we are now at version 8, I wonder what else is
a little behind the times on their web site :-)

FWIW

RsH
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On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 08:19:23 -0800, Top Spin >
wrote:

>WARNING! This software apparently does not run on Windows 2000. For
>some strange reason, it runs on 98, ME, and XP, but not 2000. When I
>installed it, it complained that a couple of files were missing.
>
>The missing files were mscomctl.ocx and mscomct2.ocx.
>
>When I exited the install program, I got a message that looked to be
>from Windows saying that some files were now missing and that Windows
>might be unstable.
>
>So far Windows seems to be running OK and ProChef Plus also runs so
>I'm not sure what the error message was about. I am talking to the
>developer, but if you have Win2K you might not want to try this
>program.
>
>If I get a better answer, I will post it.
>
>I have never seen a program that would work on 98 and XP but not 2000.

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