Compatibility with Windows 7

dkmcf mcfarla9 at msu.edu
Fri Jan 29 14:01:40 UTC 2010


liw,

Well, I cannot argue with your experience, but for the record I would
say that is neither the typical nor intended behavior of E-Studio.  My
experience is exactly the opposite, and is not based on memory since
we have EP1.2 in wide use here.

Regards,
-- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder


On Jan 29, 5:29 am, liwenna <liwe... at gmail.com> wrote:
> You are very right on the looseley referring to e-prime for any of its
> applications ^.^
>
> However, I do am quite sure that on my previous university we did not
> need the dongle to run e-studio (1.2). It was only needed during
> installation (which was very convenient because it made it possible to
> borrow the dongle overnight to install e-prime on your home computer
> where you could then use it without the dongle. Netwerk access to the
> university network also was not needed so I am pretty sure it worked
> without).
>
> Here at my current university the dongle is connected to a server
> somewhere so that all networkconnected computers run on it.
> Unfortunately connecting a homebased computer trough remote desktop
> does not access that specific server so no more home e-studioing (<=
> note the learning progress!).
>
> This all, obviously, on a side note.
>
> Have a nice weekend everyone!
>
> liw
>
> On Jan 28, 7:53 pm, David McFarlane <mcfar... at msu.edu> wrote:
>
> > liwenna wrote:
> > >If I am not mistaken it's actually the newer e-prime (2.0) that
> > >required a dongle to run.... at least it does at my university whereas
> > >at my previous university we used e-prime 1.2 and the dongle was only
> > >required during installation of e-prime.
>
> > Depends on what you mean by "E-Prime".  As you recall, there is no
> > program called "E-Prime", rather E-Prime properly refers to a suite
> > of programs.  We all (including me) have the bad habit of loosely
> > referring to any program in the suite as "E-Prime" when we really
> > mean something more specific like (most often) E-Studio, or E-Run, or
> > E-DataAid, etc.  So here's the story as far as I can figure it out...
>
> > *All* versions of E-Prime require a hardware key ("dongle") or
> > network key to run *E-Studio*.  All versions of E-Prime do *not*
> > require any key to run any other programs in the suite, e.g., E-Run
> > or E-DataAid.  EP1 does require a key during installation, whereas
> > EP2 does not.  (So far I have managed to avoid network keys, so I
> > cannot say much about them.)
>
> > On a side topic, over on the PST Forum every once in a while someone
> > writes in with a problem with the "subject station" installation.  I
> > never understand why anyone bothers with "subject station"
> > installations.  Around here we just do a full install of E-Prime
> > whereever we might need it.  Then, whatever station currently has the
> > hardware key serves as the "development" station, and any others
> > serve as "subject" and "data analysis" stations.  We can change those
> > roles at will, and as I understand it this all fits within the terms
> > of the license without us ever hassling with "subject stations".
>
> > -- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder

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