i had installed ( metastock 9 pro)

in my ( windows 7 ) PC

and it is not working properly

as

interday folder not found ?????

I see

Is metastock 10 or 11 better than 9 ???

I use the interday data on it ....

I heard that there is broblem at 10 and 11 ( interday)

My MetaStock 9.1 EOD is running perfectly well under Win7 Ultimate 64-bit. I see no need to pay for an upgrade just for Win7.

After installation, make sure you go to the program entry under the Start button and select "Run as Administrator" and "Windows XP Service Pack 3" in Compatibility settings.

I have MS8 and MS9 on a HP mini netbook running Win7-32.... no problems with MSWIN or Downloader (although I use Norgate as my data vendor so don't use the Downloader to actually download data). I don't run as Admin or use any other "tricks".


wabbit [:D]

o.k.

mr jim i will try that

Ahmad,

Obviously, some of our customers are able to use MetaStock versions prior to 10.1 in Windows 7.

However, as a MetaStock Support Representative, I must repeat that we do not support such configurations. If you are able to get them to work, great. If you are not, please get the upgrade to MetaStock 10.1 or later.

Wabbit, I'm using Win7-64U and MS9.1 EOD. Do you have any problems with template stability? I've been having problems lately with Smart Charts not reopening as they were saved - the indicator layouts are all messed up with different Inner Window sizes. Have tried saving my setup as Default Template as well as separate named template configurations without success. In fact, I find clicking on my Default Template button will configure the view to something different than what I'd saved as the default; it's changing my saved templates.

The template error results in a fairly consistent, but unrecognizable template layout - in other words it's usually messed up the same way, but in a way I've never set up or saved. I have set the entire drive and all folders to Read/Write permissions for all user and no restrictions, but it seems like MS9.1 is still confused about saving configurations.

Ideas welcome about this one; thanks.

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I tried installing/running in the WinXP virtual machine available for Win7 Ultimate. Installed fine, but was rocky when accessing data files from the Win7 side (it worked, but slowly) and the installer for my Elder Disk wouldn't run at all.

I need to get back to TA and away from software fiddling, so I threw in the towel and upgraded to MS 11 EOD. So far, so good; my template instability problems seem to be fixed - I just have to reopen and reapply my template to the many garbled Smart Charts from previous attempts.
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Not yet, but I've been thinking about doing exactly that. The problem with rolling back updates to see if one might be the problem is, of course, that there are so damn many of them - if that's the problem it could be any one of hundreds, or some combination of updates. Life's too short to explore all those permutations........

I wouldn't mind upgrading to 11 for Win7 compatibility, but the best deal I can find at the moment is US$199. Considering it's still the same clunky design it's been since Win95, that's a lot of money for a compatibility fix and I don't have any interest in RMO or other extraneous junk they've added.

With two major revision numbers since my 9.1, I would expect significant overhaul of the MS design and engine, instead of remaining stuck in a very old design prison. It irks me no end to run Explorations and then be unable to do anything with the charts until I exit completely out of the Explorer - from what I understand everything still works this way in version 11.

Might be time to fiddle with the virtualization in Win7.

Yes, that's what I paid. Well, actually it's supposedly $250 or $300 but they'll give you a "special deal" of $199 plus $16 shipping - I paid a total of $215.

Note that you'll have to run MS as Administrator in Win7 and also check the "Disable desktop composition" option in Properties > Compatibility for the program. MS 11 still has some display issues with Win7 Aero, so this is necessary to disable fancy window graphics when loading MS. If you don't check this option, MS11 will have severe problems saving and restoring chart layouts - it was constantly blowing up my carefully-arranged inner windows and window sizes.

After finally getting that advice from MS tech support (there is nothing in the MS11 package about Win7 peculiarities that I could find) it settled down and works fairly well, although every now and then it'll still mess up a chart display when its reloaded.

The next version of MS had better address Vista/Win7 issues; it's sort of being patched together now with temporary workarounds and doesn't really conform to current Windows standards.