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Primavera P3 - compatible with XP?

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Tue, 2005-05-17 15:09
John Paul Spence
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Hi, can someone please tell me if P3 is compatible with Windows XP Professional?

JP
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Thu, 2005-05-26 16:20
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Mark Hanford
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Yes - Works well. In a network environment you will need everyone on the network to be using Windows XP. Also we have had problems with Adobe Print, We had to install P3 service pack 2 and change some adobe print settings.
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Wed, 2005-05-18 07:48
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Frank Borcherdt
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John,

I can confirm what Sonia says....P3 3.1 with XP SP2 works well. There is/was a problem that Microsoft disabled the 16-bit subsystem in one of the hotfixes by removing the autoexec.nt file from the c:\windows\system32 folder causing ALL 16-bit apps to fail. Copy the autoexec.nt file from c:\winodws\repair to the system32 folder to correct this fault. Both the MS and Primavera knowledgebases have this info.

HTH
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Wed, 2005-05-18 04:48
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Sonia Thomas
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Hi,

P3 ver 3.1 only works with Windows XP - and not earlier versions of P3. P3 works without any problem even if XP sevice pack 2 is installed..

(once I faced problem when installed XP SP2, where P3 was already installed..but lateron when I has to reinstall P3, it worked well, even though XP’s SP 2 is still there..)
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Wed, 2005-05-18 03:10
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John Paul Spence
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Thanks. But if SP2 is installed on my machine - can i bring it back down to SP 1?
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Wed, 2005-05-18 02:30
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Dayanidhi Dhandapany
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It works well in XP environment with SP1, so far no trouble.
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Wed, 2005-05-18 00:25
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Bill Guthrie
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of course it is. works great together. but be sure and load up the p3 service pacs when installing

bill
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