On Sat, 28 Dec 2019 15:50:09 -0500, "Mayayana"
wrote:
"Paul" wrote
| Dataram RAMDisk Driver
| V4.0.4.2
| Dataram RAMDiskVE Driver
| Dataram, Inc.
|
An update and warning on this:
I installed v. 3.5.130 for XP support. The most recent
versions don't support XP and a bit further back they
switched to .Net v. 4, which I prefer to avoid. It all
worked very well from the start and continues to work
well.
I installed
https://filehippo.com/download_ramdisk/4.0.0.5.-1/
as recommended by Paul.
Only thing that annoys me is I can't make it into a
"removable" drive, i.e. I get RECYCLER and System Volume Information.
No crashes so far.
(See below)
Except.... When I opened Visual Studio 6 I was getting
errors. It appears that the Dataram author is talented
with low-level operations but somewhat ignorant of
GUI programming. The program uses several ActiveX
controls, unnecessarily. And the installer makes an
unforgiveable mess of Registry settings. It actually
changes some specific interface settings without
registering the controls. I had to unregister and
re-register the system versions of those controls. It
was an amazingly messed up installer. And when I uninstall
I'll need to remember to watch out for corruption again.
The only thing
I can think of is that maybe the MSI was made by
a very messed up MSI maker. The only clue is that the
program used to make the MSI, as listed in the Summary
Info, is "Windows Installer Editor Standalone". I'm not
sure if that's an actual program or a default value used
when someone sets up their own MSI using something
like Wix.
At any rate, beware of all versions. The author clearly
doesn't know how to do a proper software install. There
could also be problems with the .Net version. I was going
to send them a note but they seem to be very evasive.
There's no email listed on their website. There's only an
option for paying customers to get a "support ticket".
Weird. But it works when nothing else did.
You can use lessMSI to "look inside" the installer and even
extract files:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/lessmsi.mirror/files/
It's written in VB6.(DataRam I mean).
Maybe it installed old libraries?
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