Interesting news regarding my previous problem. Last week my computer crashed big time with the dreaded "Blue screen of death". The problem turned out to be the "video card driver". We uninstalled the original VC driver and downloaded the updated version. The PC is now working better than ever. I wonder if this was the problem with MetaStock continually shutting down.


sentinel

I wander if we ever find out for sure, but chances are that it was.
As Metastock worked well and then stopped.

Either way, you are up and running and that's most important.

Happy & sentinel,

I can tell you 100%, that is is not a video card driver issue - When I was at Paritech I spent many hours with Jim Berg who loved 6.52 trying to get it work on XP, and I basically rebuilt his PC many times to get it working, but it did not work very well.

So all I can say is, if your 6.52 is working on XP, be thankful, but when it fails; its time to upgrade, as it will be the only way to fix it.

This issue reminds me about the new version of Symantec Internet Security 2006 - They will only work on Windows 2000 and XP now, you cant get the older version working on older systems any more, but thats not what we are here for.

Good luck

Thanks Storm, got this one cleared.

I'll be waiting for MS 10 it'll be probably closer to Tradestation, with definitely more grunt to do all sort of testing.

Good to have something like that when stock market goes nowhere.

My 7.o2 has been working great touch wood for about two years now. I had ver 8 but hated it so when back to my old trusty.

Thinking of getting ver9.

Ver 9 has the same 'hate' spots with some improvements.

I still wander who was the genius to make such a mockery out of stock folders handling.

Equis insists that it was public asking for it, but it wasn't me that's for sure.

pgale,

Why do you say you hated 8.0? What in particular did you dislike?

I don't see a great difference in 7.02 and 8.0, and no longer having trouble with the program which was my main concern.

A few extra's in 8.0

In Metastock 6 I could start program and for any exploration program would take all data and run.

In 8 Metastock and higher I have to pick up data virtually by hand to run exploration.

OK, I can have more than 2,000 stocks in one Folder, but come splits, consolidations, additions name changes and removals I have to do the update by hand.

Or pick up all the stocks by hand again, this is what I do once a month or once a quarter if too busy.

Of course there might be something I don’t know, as I am not much of a computer man.
And I would be happy to find out as it takes me more than 1 hour to pick up 1200 stocks of interest

I too em now having a similar problem v7.02.
I can't do explorations and get error codes.
I re-installed program after formatting my harddrive.
I think my trouble is I was using FAT32 on windows XP and now use NTNS.
Looks like I'll have to het use to v9

Good news is, that if you bought your Metastock program from reputable reseller, if you explain your problems there is good chance to get nice discount for upgrade.