Microsoft Windows Vista News
WinHlp32.exe, used to display 32-bit .hlp files, is no longer included in Windows Vista as Microsoft wants their Internet Explorer browser to be used to display HTML Help. Microsoft prohibits software manufacturers from re-introducing the .hlp help system with their products, but Microsoft now makes the 32-bit Help engine available as a web-site download for Windows Vista users. Visit
The complete 330-page manual for AstrolDeluxe ReportWriter is available in a Manual folder on the AstrolDeluxe ReportWriter CD as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file. To see the Manual folder, when the CD autoplay brings up the Saturn splash screen, click on the Cancel button and in My Computer right click on the CD icon and select Explore. You could drag the WSTDOCSM.PDF file that is in the Manual folder to My Documents where it will be handy. And at Start, All Programs, Halloran Software, there is a readme item called AstrolDeluxe ReportWriter New Info that has the documentation for the new features added since version 6.1.
Also on the CD, you may notice a folder called edit32-v6. You can run the setup.exe in this folder in order to be able to edit interpretations on a computer with 1 Gigabyte or more of RAM memory. Temporarily, this special package did not install to the DAO directory the dao2535.tlb and dao350.dll files that the data bound control needs - if you install to a virgin machine that does not already have these files and you get the error 'Class not registered' then write to me for support and I will give you the URL of a zip file that installs the necessary files.
If you have 64-bit Vista, it seems to happen more often that the CD autoplay does not start. You may get a system registry error message and don't get the screen with the Saturn picture and the button choices to Install AstrolDeluxe ReportWriter and Install Add-Ons. But it is still easy to install AstrolDeluxe ReportWriter and its add-ons from the CD without the autoplay screen.
Go to Start, Computer and right click on the CD drive icon. Select Explore. You will see the folders and files on the AstrolDeluxe CD. Scroll down into the files till you get to the setup.exe bootstrap program that will have a little computer icon next to it. Double click to run that.
When that is finished, you can run the setup.exe that is in the folders of your interpretation set add-ons.
If you have 64-bit Vista and want to run the hobbyist-level Astrology for Windows program, order the $27.00 CD that has version 2.5 of that program.
As of July 23, 2007, version 2.3i of Astrology for Windows which fixes a Vista display problem that was aborting Astrology for Windows installations on Windows Vista computers is available for download.
Halloran Software is now shipping the completely Vista-compatible version 7.1 AstrolDeluxe ReportWriter astrology software all on CD.
But if you get an error the first time that you try to run earlier program versions under Windows Vista, right click on the icon for the astrology program and select Run as Administrator. Try this if you get error 75, Path/File Access Error, when you go to open a saved chart. You just have to do this once. Most of the incompatibility with earlier versions of Windows is caused by something called User Account Control (UAC). Turn this off by clicking on Start, Control Panel and typing in the word user. That will give you a menu which includes the option to remove the checkmark from User Account Control (UAC) - follow through with that to the point of restarting Windows. Once you do that, your software incompatibility problems will disappear. Microsoft created UAC for corporations that have multiple people using one computer in order to set different user permission levels for accessing different parts of the computer. Most of my customers are the only users of their machines and should have administrative rights throughout their own computers.
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For a list of the minor version enhancements and fixes that have been made since your 6.3 minor version, click here.
Click to download and save a program to update your AstrolDeluxe, version 6.3 program. When you run the HSUPD63.EXE program, it will automatically find the AstrolDeluxe ReportWriter astrology program where you last ran it, and before HSUPD63 updates your winast32.exe file it will make a copy of the old file to a name which includes today's date (month and day). If you have AstrolDeluxe ReportWriter open, you must exit from it before running the HSUPD63.EXE update program.
Click to download a self-extracting collection of these three asteroids. When you run the self-extracting program, it will give you the opportunity to unzip the collection into the c:\winastro\asteroid\ folder on your hard disk.
Click to download the self-extracting collection of 20 additional asteroids. When you run the self-extracting program, it will give you the opportunity to unzip the collection into the c:\winastro\asteroid\ folder on your hard disk.