Heya folks,

I was just checking and found out that MasterCook isn't compatible
with Vista. I am bummed.

What recipe software *does* work with Vista?

Anyone know?

Christine

Christine Dabney wrote:
> Heya folks,
>
> I was just checking and found out that MasterCook isn't compatible
> with Vista. I am bummed.
>
> What recipe software *does* work with Vista?

BigOven does, and their customer service is stellar. It has some
features that don't work the way I want them to (and I've switched to
linux anyway), so I don't use them any more, but I liked them when I
was, and I like their website community.

Serene

--
"I think I have an umami receptor that has developed sentience." -- Stef

Christine Dabney wrote:
> Heya folks,
>
> I was just checking and found out that MasterCook isn't compatible
> with Vista. I am bummed.
>
> What recipe software *does* work with Vista?
>
> Anyone know?
>
> Christine

I've got MasterCook 9, I think. I wonder if that would work with Vista? I
use that, but I prefer BigOven. I know BigOven works.

kili

Christine Dabney > wrote:

>I was just checking and found out that MasterCook isn't compatible
>with Vista. I am bummed.

Here is some information:

http://mc6help.tripod.com/mastercook_and_vista.htm

According to this you may need to disable "User Account Control".

Steve

On 2008-06-28, Steve Pope > wrote:
> Here is some information:
>
> http://mc6help.tripod.com/mastercook_and_vista.htm
>
> According to this you may need to disable "User Account Control".

That doesn't sound good.

nb

In article >,

>On 2008-06-28, Steve Pope > wrote:

>> Here is some information:
>>
>> http://mc6help.tripod.com/mastercook_and_vista.htm
>>
>> According to this you may need to disable "User Account Control".
>
>That doesn't sound good.

I hope I never have to find out.

Steve

On Sat 28 Jun 2008 11:15:58a, Christine Dabney told us...

> Heya folks,
>
> I was just checking and found out that MasterCook isn't compatible
> with Vista. I am bummed.
>
> What recipe software *does* work with Vista?
>
> Anyone know?
>
> Christine

It was my understanding that Mastercook 9 was compatible with Vista.
Perhaps it is not.

--
Wayne Boatwright
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Saturday, 06(VI)/28(XXVIII)/08(MMVIII)
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That which does not kill me had better
be able to run away damn fast.
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On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:15:58 -0500, Christine Dabney
> wrote:

>Heya folks,
>
>I was just checking and found out that MasterCook isn't compatible
>with Vista. I am bummed.
>
>What recipe software *does* work with Vista?
>
Why do you want to use recipe software and not just use Word Docs kept
in files? I couldn't care less about nutrition information and delete
it from every recipe posted with recipe software.


--
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.

Mae West

"Christine Dabney" > wrote in message
...
> Heya folks,
>
> I was just checking and found out that MasterCook isn't compatible
> with Vista. I am bummed.
>
> What recipe software *does* work with Vista?
>
> Anyone know?
>
> Christine

Try this:

right click on the Mastercook Icon.
Click on Properties
The 3rd tab under properties is compatibility,
Go to the dropdown menu and pull down and highlight your old system.

This should work

I am running some Windows 98 old programs on vista.

Good Luck


--
Old Scoundrel

(AKA Dimitri)

On Sat 28 Jun 2008 03:16:27p, sf told us...

> On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:15:58 -0500, Christine Dabney
> > wrote:
>
>>Heya folks,
>>
>>I was just checking and found out that MasterCook isn't compatible
>>with Vista. I am bummed.
>>
>>What recipe software *does* work with Vista?
>>
> Why do you want to use recipe software and not just use Word Docs kept
> in files? I couldn't care less about nutrition information and delete
> it from every recipe posted with recipe software.

There are features I like, such as automatic scaleability of recipes,
creating shopping lists of ingredients based on a single or group of
recipes, automatic completion of both unit types and ingredients as you
type, searchable database based on many different possible criteria, etc.
You can't do that with Word. You could probably write something roughly
equivalent in Access or in SQL, but why bother when there are already
several products that do it. Plus I have downloaded "cookbook"
collections, apart from my own personal collection,that total some 85,000
recipes that I can search for possibiliites. I also couldn't care elss
about nutrition information that is usually generated, although I have
played around with having it calculate Weight Watcher Points from a recipe,
I don't have anything concrete on that yet.

--
Wayne Boatwright
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Saturday, 06(VI)/28(XXVIII)/08(MMVIII)
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A KGB keyboard has no escape key...
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On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:15:58 -0500, Christine Dabney
> wrote:

>Heya folks,
>
>I was just checking and found out that MasterCook isn't compatible
>with Vista. I am bummed.
>
>What recipe software *does* work with Vista?
>
>Anyone know?
>
>Christine

If you have Vista and MasterCook Version 9, just right click on the
MasterCook Icon, click on the Compatibility tab, go to the bottom of
the menu and click on "Run this program as administrator". I haven't
used all the bells and whistles in MasterCook yet, but I have entered
recipes, transferred recipes in, played with the format, printed out
recipes and done most of the basic stuff.

Ron Kelley

On 2008-06-28, sf <> wrote:

> Why do you want to use recipe software and not just use Word Docs kept
> in files?

Why use Word, which still has all kinds of proprietary formatting? Use
notepad or wordpad and save the file as a .txt file. Then, it can be
imported and/or sent to any platform/OS with no probs.

nb

Christine Dabney wrote:
> Heya folks,
>
> I was just checking and found out that MasterCook isn't compatible
> with Vista. I am bummed.
>
> What recipe software *does* work with Vista?
>
> Anyone know?
>
> Christine

It is compatible. You have to disable the administrator thingie. I don't
have Vista, but lots of people on the MastercookDiscussion yahoo group
do and they use it just fine.

--
Janet Wilder
Bad spelling. Bad punctuation
Good Friends. Good Life

notbob wrote:
> On 2008-06-28, Steve Pope > wrote:
>> Here is some information:
>>
>> http://mc6help.tripod.com/mastercook_and_vista.htm
>>
>> According to this you may need to disable "User Account Control".
>
> That doesn't sound good.
>
> nb

It's nothing bad. It just makes Vista run like XP.

--
Janet Wilder
Bad spelling. Bad punctuation
Good Friends. Good Life

Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> On Sat 28 Jun 2008 11:15:58a, Christine Dabney told us...
>
>> Heya folks,
>>
>> I was just checking and found out that MasterCook isn't compatible
>> with Vista. I am bummed.
>>
>> What recipe software *does* work with Vista?
>>
>> Anyone know?
>>
>> Christine
>
> It was my understanding that Mastercook 9 was compatible with Vista.
> Perhaps it is not.
>

It is. You just have to know how to tweak it.

--
Janet Wilder
Bad spelling. Bad punctuation
Good Friends. Good Life

sf wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:15:58 -0500, Christine Dabney
> > wrote:
>
>> Heya folks,
>>
>> I was just checking and found out that MasterCook isn't compatible
>> with Vista. I am bummed.
>>
>> What recipe software *does* work with Vista?
>>
> Why do you want to use recipe software and not just use Word Docs kept
> in files? I couldn't care less about nutrition information and delete
> it from every recipe posted with recipe software.
>
>

I need the nutrition information. I even add things into Master Cook
that are not in their database so I have the nutrition info. It would
take me hours and hours to make my word processor as efficient as Master
Cook for keeping recipes and cook books. I also like the shopping list I
can generate, the category and cuisine designations. I'd be lost
without it.

--
Janet Wilder
Bad spelling. Bad punctuation
Good Friends. Good Life

Michael "Dog3" wrote:
> notbob > : in
> rec.food.cooking
>
>> On 2008-06-28, sf <> wrote:
>>
>>> Why do you want to use recipe software and not just use Word Docs kept
>>> in files?
>> Why use Word, which still has all kinds of proprietary formatting? Use
>> notepad or wordpad and save the file as a .txt file. Then, it can be
>> imported and/or sent to any platform/OS with no probs.
>
> I tend to just save the whole RFC article as a text file. Then it goes
> into the mygarbage/cookingandrecipes/RFC file for later use. When I get
> around to it I'll open the file, trim the headers and gunk off it and then
> file it into the RFCrecipe file.

I save recipes from RFC and other groups in My Files. I put an '1' in
front of the file name so I know that I haven't put it into the cookbook
yet. When I get around to it, I tweak the recipe like to get rid of
headers, etc. and use "Import Assistant" in Master Cook to put it into
my cookbook.


--
Janet Wilder
Bad spelling. Bad punctuation
Good Friends. Good Life

Christine Dabney > wrote in
:

> Heya folks,
>
> I was just checking and found out that MasterCook isn't compatible
> with Vista. I am bummed.
>
> What recipe software *does* work with Vista?
>
> Anyone know?
>
> Christine
>

Now your cooking http://www.ffts.com/

meets all my needs...nutrition, shopping list, screen copy recipe
addition, formatting a web page layout...or importing from MC. If you get
the forever updates it will always work with any microsoft platform. Tech
replies usually same day...Hell I had them add a feature or 2 that I
wanted. A mess more features than I explained. Cost runs you about
$30...check out their website.

--

The house of the burning beet-Alan

Steve Pope > wrote:

> In article >,
>
>>On 2008-06-28, Steve Pope > wrote:
>
>>> Here is some information:
>>>
>>> http://mc6help.tripod.com/mastercook_and_vista.htm
>>>
>>> According to this you may need to disable "User Account Control".
>>
>>That doesn't sound good.
>
> I hope I never have to find out.

UAC is the most irritating feature of Vista. It's far too obnoxious
that when it finally came time to protect you against something that
would really be harmful, you'd let the malware do it just out of
habit (you have to press "Yes" and "OK" every friggen time you try
and start an application or open many types of files).

It's the first thing that needs turned off when you install Vista.
Unless you're into the S&M shit.

ObFood: Omelete with bacon and meunster topped with my secret red
jalapeno sauce.

-sw

Michael "Dog3" wrote:
> Janet Wilder >
> : in rec.food.cooking
>
>> I save recipes from RFC and other groups in My Files. I put an '1' in
>> front of the file name so I know that I haven't put it into the
>> cookbook yet. When I get around to it, I tweak the recipe like to get
>> rid of headers, etc. and use "Import Assistant" in Master Cook to put
>> it into my cookbook.
>
> Do you back up your files? I have an external hard drive with only about 4
> gigs. I made it myself from an unused hard drive I've had for years. It
> fills up pretty quick so I nuke some of the stuff off of it and do another
> full back up about once a month.
>
> Michael
>
Yes, I back up my files often. I have an e-book which has more GBs than
I'll ever need. I back up to it once a week. A couple of times a year, I
made a CD or DVD of all the files I back up. Mostly everything in the my
documents file (I tend to put stuff there so it's easier to back up) and
my mastercook recipes.

--
Janet Wilder
Bad spelling. Bad punctuation
Good Friends. Good Life

Janet Wilder wrote:

> Yes, I back up my files often. I have an e-book which has more GBs than
> I'll ever need. I back up to it once a week. A couple of times a year, I
> made a CD or DVD of all the files I back up. Mostly everything in the my
> documents file (I tend to put stuff there so it's easier to back up) and
> my mastercook recipes.
>

(Idiotically responding to myself) I also backup my address book and my
Firefox bookmarks. Loosing my bookmarks would be almost as bad as losing
my recipes <vbg>

--
Janet Wilder
Bad spelling. Bad punctuation
Good Friends. Good Life

On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:27:17 -0500, Janet Wilder
> wrote:

>notbob wrote:
>> On 2008-06-28, Steve Pope > wrote:
>>> Here is some information:
>>>
>>> http://mc6help.tripod.com/mastercook_and_vista.htm
>>>
>>> According to this you may need to disable "User Account Control".
>>
>> That doesn't sound good.
>>
>> nb
>
>It's nothing bad. It just makes Vista run like XP.

Let me get this straight. To make Vista like XP, turn off "User
Account Control"? That's all? Why was everyone so up in arms for so
long over Vista then if it's that simple?


--
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.

Mae West

sf > wrote:

>Let me get this straight. To make Vista like XP, turn off "User
>Account Control"? That's all? Why was everyone so up in arms for so
>long over Vista then if it's that simple?

I suspect can't possibly be that simple.

However, I am not willing to guinea pig myself just to be able
to speak from authority/experience on this particular point.

Steve

> Janet Wilder wrote:
>
>> Yes, I back up my files often. I have an e-book which has more GBs than
>> I'll ever need. I back up to it once a week. A couple of times a year, I
>> made a CD or DVD of all the files I back up. Mostly everything in the my
>> documents file (I tend to put stuff there so it's easier to back up) and
>> my mastercook recipes.
>>
>
> (Idiotically responding to myself) I also backup my address book and my
> Firefox bookmarks. Loosing my bookmarks would be almost as bad as losing
> my recipes <vbg>
>
> --
> Janet Wilder

I've never been able to figure out how to backup my address book and never
even tried to back up my bookmarks, but I primarily I use IE... maybe
that's the problem? I do successfully backup Quicken and MC. I do
occasionally use Firefox. I'm also a "My Book" user (my husband got it for
me for Christmas last year).

Chris (fellow Texan)

On Sun 29 Jun 2008 11:39:15a, Steve Pope told us...

> sf > wrote:
>
>>Let me get this straight. To make Vista like XP, turn off "User
>>Account Control"? That's all? Why was everyone so up in arms for so
>>long over Vista then if it's that simple?
>
> I suspect can't possibly be that simple.
>
> However, I am not willing to guinea pig myself just to be able
> to speak from authority/experience on this particular point.
>
> Steve
>

I thank the Lord that there's no way to make XP run like Vista, and will
rue the day that support is dropped for XP. That might even force me to
look at Unix. :-(

--
Wayne Boatwright
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Sunday, 06(VI)/29(XXIX)/08(MMVIII)
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Using yesterday's technology to solve
today's problems, tomorrow
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On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:02:01 -0500, Sqwertz >
wrote:


>UAC is the most irritating feature of Vista. It's far too obnoxious
>that when it finally came time to protect you against something that
>would really be harmful, you'd let the malware do it just out of
>habit (you have to press "Yes" and "OK" every friggen time you try
>and start an application or open many types of files).
>
>It's the first thing that needs turned off when you install Vista.
>Unless you're into the S&M shit.

How do you turn it off. I admit it is annoying the hell outa me.

Christine

On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:08:49 -0500, Janet Wilder
> wrote:


>(Idiotically responding to myself) I also backup my address book and my
>Firefox bookmarks. Loosing my bookmarks would be almost as bad as losing
>my recipes <vbg>

Yeah, tell me about it. I have been trying to find all my Firefox
bookmarks..all the food blogs, food sites, the food product sites, the
equipment sites, the whathaveyou sites. It's a royal pain...

However, there is a bright side to this. I am discovering more food
blogs that I didn't know existed and some of these are absolutely
fantastic!

Christine

Christine Dabney > wrote:

> On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:02:01 -0500, Sqwertz >
> wrote:
>
>>UAC is the most irritating feature of Vista. It's far too obnoxious
>>that when it finally came time to protect you against something that
>>would really be harmful, you'd let the malware do it just out of
>>habit (you have to press "Yes" and "OK" every friggen time you try
>>and start an application or open many types of files).
>>
>>It's the first thing that needs turned off when you install Vista.
>>Unless you're into the S&M shit.
>
> How do you turn it off. I admit it is annoying the hell outa me.

Plenty of articles about it on the web.

-sw

Big Oven. And it will import all your master cook recipes. No, I do not
work for them. I've been using it since it came out to help iron out bugs
etc. I love it.

WWW.bigoven.com

--
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FERGUS/HARLINGEN
"Christine Dabney" > wrote in message
...
> Heya folks,
>
> I was just checking and found out that MasterCook isn't compatible
> with Vista. I am bummed.
>
> What recipe software *does* work with Vista?
>
> Anyone know?
>
> Christine

sf wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:27:17 -0500, Janet Wilder
> > wrote:
>
>> notbob wrote:
>>> On 2008-06-28, Steve Pope > wrote:
>>>> Here is some information:
>>>>
>>>> http://mc6help.tripod.com/mastercook_and_vista.htm
>>>>
>>>> According to this you may need to disable "User Account Control".
>>> That doesn't sound good.
>>>
>>> nb
>> It's nothing bad. It just makes Vista run like XP.
>
> Let me get this straight. To make Vista like XP, turn off "User
> Account Control"? That's all? Why was everyone so up in arms for so
> long over Vista then if it's that simple?
>
>
I was not clear. I apologize. The people on the Mastercook Discussion
Yahoo Group said that disabling the administrator thing makes
*MasterCook* run on Vista like it does on XP.

I don't have Vista. I don't want Vista. I hope and pray that XP stays
healthy.

--
Janet Wilder
Bad spelling. Bad punctuation
Good Friends. Good Life

"Janet Wilder" > wrote in message
...
> sf wrote:
>> On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:27:17 -0500, Janet Wilder
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> notbob wrote:
>>>> On 2008-06-28, Steve Pope > wrote:
>>>>> Here is some information:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://mc6help.tripod.com/mastercook_and_vista.htm
>>>>>
>>>>> According to this you may need to disable "User Account Control".
>>>> That doesn't sound good.
>>>>
>>>> nb
>>> It's nothing bad. It just makes Vista run like XP.
>>
>> Let me get this straight. To make Vista like XP, turn off "User
>> Account Control"? That's all? Why was everyone so up in arms for so
>> long over Vista then if it's that simple?
>>
>>
>
> I don't have Vista. I don't want Vista. I hope and pray that XP stays
> healthy.
>
> --
> Janet Wilder
> Bad spelling. Bad punctuation
> Good Friends. Good Life

Me either but I've got it!

--
mompeagram
FERGUS/HARLINGEN

Chris Marksberry wrote:

> I've never been able to figure out how to backup my address book and never
> even tried to back up my bookmarks, but I primarily I use IE... maybe
> that's the problem? I do successfully backup Quicken and MC. I do
> occasionally use Firefox. I'm also a "My Book" user (my husband got it for
> me for Christmas last year).
>
> Chris (fellow Texan)
>
>

Chris,

When you open the address book (the Microsoft one that comes with
Windows) Under "File" you click on Export. When it asks which file,
click "address book" Then it will ask for you to tell it where to save
it to and you click "e" drive if that is where your e-book is.

--
Janet Wilder
Bad spelling. Bad punctuation
Good Friends. Good Life

On 2008-06-29, Sqwertz > wrote:


> UAC is the most irritating feature of Vista.

I'm no longer a M$ geek, having switched to linux yrs ago, but as I
understand it, any kind of user acct ctrl is to be desired. Windows, clear
up to XP, ran by default as system administrator. Running as sys admin, or
root as *nix calls it, is bad mojo! If you get a virus or drive-by, such
malicious code (malware) can access the whole dang system and pretty much
wreak hovac. By using UAC(?), it's my understanding you can create a user
acct for, say, joe and control joe's access to the system. This is how
unix/linux/xos works and it's a good thing. When you use the system as a
non-root user, you have limited access. That means if you get a malicious
website script that wants to write malicious code to your computer, it may
not be able to do it because "joe" doesn't have "write" access to the entire
system. IOW, limited access means limited risk. To disable this feature
and purposely run in the sys admin mode is seriously compromisinig any
security features you may have.

My advice: don't disable UAC. Learn about it, use it, and make it work in
your favor. BTW, I think you have some sort of user access control clear
back to NT4. That includes NT4, W2K, and XP and newer.

(I can't believe I'm giving positive M$ advice.

nb

notbob > wrote:

> On 2008-06-29, Sqwertz > wrote:
>
>> UAC is the most irritating feature of Vista.
>
> I'm no longer a M$ geek, having switched to linux yrs ago, but as I
> understand it, any kind of user acct ctrl is to be desired.

Blah, blah, blah. Install it. Use it. Uninstall it. You'll see
what we mean.

> My advice: don't disable UAC. Learn about it, use it, and make it work in
> your favor.

End-users can't make it work in their favor. Software vendors have
to pay Microsoft to get the credentials to make it run without
bugging the shit out of you.

If that isn't terrorism, I don't know what is. And don't even
mention the purposely crippled drivers...

-sw

Sqwertz > wrote:

>notbob > wrote:

>> My advice: don't disable UAC. Learn about it, use it, and make it work in
>> your favor.

>End-users can't make it work in their favor. Software vendors have
>to pay Microsoft to get the credentials to make it run without
>bugging the shit out of you.

Can't some hacker create a hack that will allow you to "bless"
applications in a way that bypasses the need to click on the UAC
each time?

Seems like any normal firewall program allows this.

Steve

Steve Pope > wrote:

> Sqwertz > wrote:
>
>>notbob > wrote:
>
>>> My advice: don't disable UAC. Learn about it, use it, and make it work in
>>> your favor.
>
>>End-users can't make it work in their favor. Software vendors have
>>to pay Microsoft to get the credentials to make it run without
>>bugging the shit out of you.
>
> Can't some hacker create a hack that will allow you to "bless"
> applications in a way that bypasses the need to click on the UAC
> each time?

Yeah, it's called turning off UAC, which solves a bunch of other
problems as well.

It was the first thing I did on my Vista machine - which only last
3-4 days before I nuked that installation. So I can't say I'm an
expert on it.

-sw