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voltare
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I have been running Powerhome 2.1b on Windows 7 ultimate release candidate with no real issues. I just installed the final release of Windows 7 home addition version. I had to do a full install because you cannot upgrade from ultimate to home. Before doing so I made sure I had copies on the pwrhome.ini and pwrhome.db files and I actually made a copy of the whole directory just to be sure.
After installing Powerhome I copied over the pwrhome db and ini files but when I started powerhome up none of my devices were showing. After trying several things I finally pulled the data from my PLM. I got 4 of 5 devices to show up, but they are not named and I still don't have the events I created.
Any ideas on why I can't restore everything I had from the pwrhome db and ini files? Do I have to start from scratch?
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Look in the INI file and make sure the DB path is correct
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Like Pete said it's probably a directory issue.
- - What you may want to try is renaming the current PH
directory (c:\program files (x86)\powerhome to c:\program
files (x86)\powerhome21b) and then copying over your old PH
dir to c:\program files (x86)\powerhome. You'll need to
update the pwrhome.ini file for any directory changes.
Also make sure the phscr.reg file is updated as above.
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Thank you. I tried all the above and it did not work, but then I tried turn off the UAC(User Account Control) which I read about in another post and it worked. I had tried that before and it had not worked. I guess the things above in combination with turning off the UAC is what fixed it.
Now I really don't understand what the UAC had to do with it since I was running on Windows 7 RC with UAC on before. Being developer and now managing developers for the last 20 years I learned a long time ago sometimes you just can't explain why something does or doesn't work. 
Thanks again for the help. These Forums have been extremely helpful.
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There are combinations that affect how the program will run with UAC on. I run on one system with UAC on and the other off. But to make the one with ON to work, you seem to have to have all the “stars lined up”. What happened in your case with UAC on the path to the DB was obtained from a different location than the installed had pointed to. Registering PH exec to run as Administrator not the shortcut seems to fix it in severe cases. Anyway you got it running and that’s good. 
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