Getting Your ATPOL Software to Work on Microsoft Vista
The following article is in the February Edition of the MDMH News: http://www.motordoc.com/news/20090203MDMHNews.pdf.
Have you tried this and what experience did you have?
You probably already know but ATPOL 4.41 won’t load onto a Vista computer. ALL-TEST Pro, LLC, advises me that they don’t intend to upgrade to Vista and sometime they might write a Vista compatible program. Well I have a new Vista computer with a SATA drive so cannot load XP without a lot of hassle.
My solution after hunting the internet:
1. Get a 2 Gig flash drive.
2. Format it (apparently flash drives over 2 gig will not always format correctly)?
3. Load the Power Systems Manger on to the flash drive (it will load on Vista)
4. Load the ATPOL onto the flash drive.
5. I then loaded all my data files onto the flash drive.
6. Plug into a Vista computer.
7. Use Windows explorer to find the flash drive and open the program by clicking on the green symbol in the flash drive.
Not all the data bases are available although the motor one is. It is a bit “messy” to get started. But all the important bits seem to work and I find the actual display to be a lot sharper.
Most importantly I can get it to work without XP. This may be of help to others who find themselves in the same hole.
Further Notes During Discussion (problems with following above instructions:
Since my initial tip, I have set up a "readyboost vista" flash drive. I had a 4 gig drive and it wouldn't work. I had to format it down to a 2 gig partition because vista doesn't like the flash drive to be bigger than the computer ram (for the ready boost).My ram is 2 gig. In case this is a conflict, because you are loading a program, I would amend my instruction to "use a 2 gig drive". (It was only by chance that I used the 2 gig drive, it was what I had to hand).
I loaded the program onto the flash drive using my old XP computer I loaded the data files from my XP computer into the flash drive
I then plugged the flash drive into the vista machine. Used Windows explorer to find the attached screen Then I click on the EMPW green symbol. This opens to the main screen which is then called EMPATH 2000, 4.41 instead of (normally ATPOL something). From there I can then select the data I want to look at.
Have you tried this and what experience did you have?
You probably already know but ATPOL 4.41 won’t load onto a Vista computer. ALL-TEST Pro, LLC, advises me that they don’t intend to upgrade to Vista and sometime they might write a Vista compatible program. Well I have a new Vista computer with a SATA drive so cannot load XP without a lot of hassle.
My solution after hunting the internet:
1. Get a 2 Gig flash drive.
2. Format it (apparently flash drives over 2 gig will not always format correctly)?
3. Load the Power Systems Manger on to the flash drive (it will load on Vista)
4. Load the ATPOL onto the flash drive.
5. I then loaded all my data files onto the flash drive.
6. Plug into a Vista computer.
7. Use Windows explorer to find the flash drive and open the program by clicking on the green symbol in the flash drive.
Not all the data bases are available although the motor one is. It is a bit “messy” to get started. But all the important bits seem to work and I find the actual display to be a lot sharper.
Most importantly I can get it to work without XP. This may be of help to others who find themselves in the same hole.
Further Notes During Discussion (problems with following above instructions:
Since my initial tip, I have set up a "readyboost vista" flash drive. I had a 4 gig drive and it wouldn't work. I had to format it down to a 2 gig partition because vista doesn't like the flash drive to be bigger than the computer ram (for the ready boost).My ram is 2 gig. In case this is a conflict, because you are loading a program, I would amend my instruction to "use a 2 gig drive". (It was only by chance that I used the 2 gig drive, it was what I had to hand).
I loaded the program onto the flash drive using my old XP computer I loaded the data files from my XP computer into the flash drive
I then plugged the flash drive into the vista machine. Used Windows explorer to find the attached screen Then I click on the EMPW green symbol. This opens to the main screen which is then called EMPATH 2000, 4.41 instead of (normally ATPOL something). From there I can then select the data I want to look at.
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