cherokee40

Thanks Fred and thank you Harry for trying to help. As for people being honest, you would be amazed at the number of people who send me messages and stationeries with stolen (they call it snagged) copyrighted music files (esp wavs and MP3s), copyrighted poems, copyrighted pictures. I am a writer myself and have already found a 15 yo using my pen name (moonlightflower) in an art site. I don't take it lightly when my stuff is stolen. As for myself, I am a party of one plus my dog. At my age (older than Harry) I do not anticipate becoming a big conglomerate business creating slide shows. I am not even in business YET, home based at that, needing to supplement social security retirement. Some software programs do have built in that the key only works once. Therefore if you have more than one computer, it's necessary to purchase a key for each computer (the $59 license). It's worth it for the company who is distributing the software to program that into the software. Some companies allow you to put the software on two computers such as I have a desktop and a lap top and charge extra for more computers. There ARE unscrupulous businesses out there thus the pirated OEM versions of name brand software AND the illegal websites that keep changing. I purchased the Business license because of ethics. I hope to be able to sell some of my slide presentations. And yes it is a lot of product for the money. Now when they upgrade for MAC users too, that will be even better. But surely the cost will go up. Aren't we fortunate to get in while all upgrades are FREE? ;-) As for the information about licenses from other sites, Igor or whomever is reviewing the sites I sent to them. As for the MAC, I found that information outside this forum too. But it was the virtual pc comment I found that gave me what to look for. Microsoft took that over and I posted that information in here. Thanks for the welcome.

Thanks bunches Cindy. This is probably the solution to my dellima too.

Thanks. The links within this site didn't work. However, what I did find were several posts that spoke of the program not working or slowing the computer down. So I did a search on the net for this Virtual PC and found that CONNECTIX was taken over by Microsoft. The website no longer exists. This is the information I found on the product: Connectix Virtual PC 3.0 with Microsoft Windows 98 allows you to run the latest Windows programs including business, education, Internet, and home applications-right on your desktop or portable Mac computers, including iMac and iBooks. In addition, you can access PC networks and easily share files between the Mac and Windows environments. Moreover, no additional hardware is needed to get full PC functionality! This is the websites: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/ http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc...pc/default.mspx plus the search I did on google, but this url may not be valid again: http://www.nextag.com/serv/main/buyer/outp...earch=connectix Now these were the negative posts: I don't have personal knowledge but others who have tried it have reported it does NOT work. Virtual PC apparently slows up the system and does not run this program correctly. THere are other threads listed in the past about this. Doug April 2003 I have been this morning to a demo of Virtual PC 7 on a Power Mac G5. VPC was settled to emulate XP Pro. First we have tried to run a PTE.exe file of about 20 picture which has been built with PTE 4.01. No sucess, the program stops after the first picture, but the music continue to run. 1,5 giga of memory was allowed for VPC. The microsoft representative has made several trials witout any success. Thereafter we have tried to install PTE 4.30 without success. As a matter of fact we had the same results that I have with VPC 5 on my G4 dual processors of 1 giga. I must point out that everything goes well with the nomade PC of my wife which runs with XP Home. Papybateau. posted in Oct 2004 This website no longer exists: http://www.connectix.com/products/vpc6m.html So I will send this information to my friend and I will add a note about the product in my website on the page where I have the Hawaii slide show a friend did for me plus the one I am working on. Thanks (wado) bunches, cherokee40

Hmmm interesting. I found the answer by doing a search on the internet and the answer is not necessarily the one above. Regardless of which license you purchase, the software is the same. So rather than consider it a juridicial issue, it is rather a matter of ethics and honesty whether you purchase the personal license and use the program for both personal and commercial use and honor the agreement between oneself and the vendor, in this case WnSoft. The difference between the license for advanced license is the ability to have the "keys" to install the program on more than one computer. However, there is a flaw there too. It's possible to use the same "key" and install the program on more than one computer. The programmer should program within the software something to differentiate and prevent unethical practice. Some software programs have minor differences between the different licenses, ie more features for the commerical version. I have no clients yet and do not anticipate becoming some booming conglomerate business yet ethically I still purchased the business license because I do hope to become a small business.

A friend of mine informed me that she can not view exe files on her MAC computer. Is there going to be a solution for this? A problem exists if I upload my slide shows to my websites and MAC uses can't view them after downloading because they didn't know they can't view EXE files. Is there a solution? I know Power Point presentations can be viewed with a free download program if the person doesn't have Power Point on their pc. I read the old msgs, no real solution.