Strange problem under Vista

[Joe Simunac]

We're testing all of our software on a Vista machine and have run across a strange problem. We use Oracle Instant Client and have always had to type in the Oracle Home and OCI Library in order for PL/SQL Developer to work correctly. I did the same under Vista, but when I restart PL/SQL Developer, the fields are empty again. I've clicked Apply, but they don't save. Therefore, I can't connect to an Oracle database. All software versions are the same, except for Vista. And the setup works fine under XP. Any ideas?

Details:

PL/SQL Developer v7.1.4.1389
Oracle Instant Client 11.1.0.6.20
Windows Vista Ultimate

 

[Marco Kalter]

Can you go to Help > Support Info, press the 'Copy all pages' button on this info screen, and paste this text into an e-mail reply?

 

[Willem]

Hi Joe

Vista prevents the application from updating the registry. If you run PL/SQL developer in administrator mode your settings will be saved.

Willem

 

[Marco van der Linden]

@Marco Kalter

With respect to registry modifications as mentioned above; I have a personal single user license, but I use PSD professionally at customer sites. As there is a growing tendency among sysadmins to disallow any system changes (apart from copying files), is there any chance of having PSD install without any registry changes and keeping settings in ini/sys/cfg files. In that way I can still use PSD while working at sites with a rigid security policy.

Most of the above mentioned customers force me to work with that 'frog thingy' which I highly dislike.

 

[Marco Kalter]

The current PL/SQL Developer version should work just fine. Only the setup program needs to write to the local_machine registry (which of course it must), and during application usage only the user registry is modified (which is also normal). No admin privileges are required after setup.