Trying, unsuccessfully so far, to get 4.3 running on Vista

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Just got a new computer with Vista Home premium installed, and I have just installed SS4.3 direct from the Sony site. First it complained that three MSJet dll's were missing, so I downloaded those and copied them to the system32 folder. Now when I try to start SS, I get two errors saying "Cannot find database file..... click to recover database." I then get another error saying "Cannot start SonicStage. The files required to use the database may not be located."

Any ideas?

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To answer myself, I'd used vLite on Vista and apparently removed the MS Jet DB support. I managed to get 4.3 running on XP Pro in a VirtualBox.

Is there a copy of 4.3 anywhere that doesn't install Connect? I've been trying links in the forum but most appear to be dead.

[Avrin]

Don't pay attention to Connect. The store is now closed, and you may remove the option from SonicStage as described in Tweak #3 here: http://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?showtopic=20002 .

And yes, MS Jet support is required for SonicStage. It uses this format for its databases. Simply copying DLLs is not enough. There is an absolutely great tool to check your MS Jet and MDAC installation, which may be dowloaded here: http://forums.minidisc.org/downloads/download.php?file=8 (although I am not sure about its Vista compatibility).

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Thanks for the reply. I knew how to stop Connect loading, but I didn't want to install it in the first place. Trying to get MS Jet working again in Vista was going to be more trouble than it was worth, plus I couldn't get my eBookman to work properly in either Vista or a VirtualBoxed XP, so I decided to dual boot Vista and XP from two physical drives. Installed SS 4.2 (with no Connect) and everything is as it should be.