Vista HowTo

HOWTO run ReStackor under Windows Vista

Start => type: excel [shift][cntrl][enter]
Surf down c:\ReStackor\Excel\Restackor.xls and open it.
You are ready to run.

Windows Vista locks C drive file access to improve security. While a huge improvement in windows file protection it creates problems for remote execution of codes, like ReStackor, on single drive laptop systems. ReStackor is launched as a shell executable by a visual basic macro run out of excel. Somewhere in there the authority for ReStackor to write files to the C drive is lost when running under windows Vista. That is fixed by running the spreadsheet in admin mode using the above launch process.

Launching Spreadsheets Under Windows Vista:

To give excel macros the authority to write to the Vista C drive the spreadsheet needs to be launched with administration privileges. The shell then inherits those privileges and allows ReStackor to write output files to the C drive. The process to launch a Windows Vista spreadsheet with admin privileges is detailed below:

Click on Start and type in "excel [shift][control][enter]". You need to hold down both shift and control when hitting enter.

That launches excel with admin privileges and gives you a blank spreadsheet. In the blank spreadsheet surf down the ReStackor spreadsheet at C:\ReStackor\Excel\ReStackor.xls and you are ready to run.

Excel spreadsheet with admin privileges launched by Start => excel [shift][cntrl][enter] will give you a windows vista prompt asking you to confirm you want to run excel in admin mode.

Surf down the ReStackor spreadsheet in c:\ReStackor\Excel\ReStackor.xls and you are ready to run.