Painter 5 on windows Media Center

Hi everyone.
I have Painter 5 that I have been using on my Win XP Pro SP1 for some time.
You may check out some of the work at
http://daddybones.com

I tried to install it on my new Dell laptop running Win XP Media Center
Edition SP2 Version 2002

The setup.exe file from the CD will simply not run.
It runs fine in the old machine.

Any suggestions?
Thanks
Ed

Try switching to Safe Mode (press F8 as the machine is booting), then 
install Painter. I haven't tried painter 5.5 (the oldest version I have) 
on this machine, but I needed to do that with several application 
installers and on the old machine I was setting up for a new owner.

Hi Richard,
Thank you very much for your reply. It worked. I was able to install Painter
5.
Now when I go to run the program  "Painter5.exe" I get this message:

Initialization Error:
Not enough free memory to run Painter

I have 1 GB of RAM and my Photoshop 6.01 runs fine.

I'll greatly appreciate any suggestions
Thanks, Ed


"Richard Haseltine" <me_wit_a_dot@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:464c696e$1_2@cnews...
>
> Try switching to Safe Mode (press F8 as the machine is booting), then
> install Painter. I haven't tried painter 5.5 (the oldest version I have)
> on this machine, but I needed to do that with several application
> installers and on the old machine I was setting up for a new owner.
>

Older (pre-7) versions of Painter lost count when the available memory 
(actual RAM and swap file) was over 2GB. You should be able to get 
around that by lowering the swap file size for Windows - unfortunately 
that will affect all applications, so if you have many open at once or 
handle large files you may need to switch between the default settings 
and the Painter-friendly settings frequently.

Virtual memory settings are reached by right-clicking on My Computer in 
the Start menu, selecting Properties, Advanced tab, Performance Settings 
button, Advanced tab, Change button in Virtual memory box. If you set 
Initial and maximum size both to 1024 you should find Painter will run.

Hi Ed,

I've just added information links relating to your issue on my Painter links
database. Although not specific to Media Center, there is info. on a couple
of fixes which may work for you;

http://del.icio.us/brush39/memory

If you wish to use the database and view the linked pages by just hovering
the cursor over the links without clicking, then try cooliris (a browser
preview plugin). For further info, just type cooliris in place of memory at
the top of the above linked page, then press enter or return for respective
links.

Cheers,

David 

On 19/5/07 00:21, in article 464ce356$1_2@cnews, "Ed Kamhi"
<ekamhi@optonline.net> wrote:

> 
> Hi Richard,
> Thank you very much for your reply. It worked. I was able to install
Painter
> 5.
> Now when I go to run the program  "Painter5.exe" I get this
message:
> 
> Initialization Error:
> Not enough free memory to run Painter
> 
> I have 1 GB of RAM and my Photoshop 6.01 runs fine.
> 
> I'll greatly appreciate any suggestions
> Thanks, Ed
> 
> 
> "Richard Haseltine" <me_wit_a_dot@gmail.com> wrote in
message
> news:464c696e$1_2@cnews...
>> 
>> Try switching to Safe Mode (press F8 as the machine is booting), then
>> install Painter. I haven't tried painter 5.5 (the oldest version I
have)
>> on this machine, but I needed to do that with several application
>> installers and on the old machine I was setting up for a new owner.
>> 
> 
> 
>