Halloran Software Updates Page

Updates Page

Microsoft Windows Vista News
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.

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

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6EBCFAD9-D3F5-4365-8070-334CD175D4BB

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.

Pluto first enters tropical Capricorn January 26, 2008. The KidZone and KidZone with Sun/Moon natal interpretation sets are missing this planet sign placement delineation. You can download a program that will add the missing Pluto in Capricorn delineation to your child natal interpretation set (the adult natal interpretation sets already have this delineation). To update your KidZone interpretations, download and run this file and click on its Unzip button.

There is an update of the PC Atlas [that is bundled with your version 6.0 - 6.3 AstrolDeluxe ReportWriter] which has the 2006 Indiana time zone changes and the enacted U.S. daylight saving changes for 2007, plus international time zone changes. To update your installed PC Atlas, apply this file.

If you have version 6.3 of AstrolDeluxe ReportWriter, which started shipping in July, 2004, you can download and run the HSUPD63.EXE program that will automatically update your program to the current minor version. As of July 1, 2005, AstrolDeluxe was at version 6.3.0.24. If you want to know what minor version your program is at, double-click in Windows on My Computer, select drive C: and the Winastro folder - then right-click on winast32.exe and look at Properties, Version. You need to have installed the version 6.3 program from the CD-ROM and companion diskette before you can run this update. If you received your version 6.3 program after July 1, 2005, you should already have the latest version, as we always put the latest version on the 3.5 inch companion diskette that comes with the CD.

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.

Add calculations from 1800 to 2100 AD for the new planet after Pluto called Eris (minor planet 136199, previously known as 2003 UB313 and Xena), as well as for the Centaurs Pholus (5145) and Nessus (7066), to the asteroids that come with AstrolDeluxe ReportWriter.

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.

Add a collection of 20 more asteroids to the 51 that come both with AstrolDeluxe for Windows, version 2.3 or later, and with AstrolDeluxe ReportWriter, version 3.0.30 or later. To see the names of the 51 included asteroids, click here. To see the names of the 20 asteroids which the download will add to your program, click here.

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.

Click to download an updated schema file, astrol.biz, that will allow Internet Explorer to read XML files that you export from version 6.1 of AstrolDeluxe. Save this file to the astrology application folder on your hard disk, which is normally c:\winastro\.

The only known problem with the word processor control that came built into the 32-bit AstrolDeluxe ReportWriter, version 4, is that Microsoft made a change in Word 2000 that makes it unable to read the section and delineation headings of the report writer's saved RTF files. So this problem only affects you if you are trying to read saved reports with Microsoft's Word 2000. You can download an update to the word processor control here. Click to download the self-extracting file that contains the updated control. When you run the self-extracting program, it will give you the opportunity to unzip the TER32.DLL into the c:\winastro folder on your hard disk. You may need to restart your computer in order for Windows to start using the updated control.

Add the Slovak language to the 12 languages that come with the Astrology for Windows download. Click to download and save the language file in self-extracting form to your hard disk. When you run the self-extracting program, it will give you the opportunity to unzip to the c:\winastro\ folder on your hard disk (or to a folder that you specify). After extracting the Slovak language file, the self-extractor will start the Astrology for Windows setup program which lets you select your desired program language.

Add the Polish language to the 12 languages that come with the Astrology for Windows download. Click to download and save the language file in self-extracting form to your hard disk. When you run the self-extracting program, it will give you the opportunity to unzip to the c:\winastro\ folder on your hard disk (or to a folder that you specify). After extracting the Polish language file, the self-extractor will start the Astrology for Windows setup program which lets you select your desired program language.

Add the Russian language to the 12 languages that come with the Astrology for Windows download. Click to download and save the language file in self-extracting form to your hard disk. When you run the self-extracting program, it will give you the opportunity to unzip to the c:\winastro\ folder on your hard disk (or to a folder that you specify). After extracting the Russian language file, the self-extractor will start the Astrology for Windows setup program which lets you select your desired program language. The Russian language file is not new - it formerly came with the Astrology for Windows download, but to keep the size of the version 2.3g download small enough to fit on a 3.5 inch diskette, the Russian language file is now a separate download.

Astrology Software Secure Order Form.

Astrology Software home page.

Old Updates page