I understand but that is not so. I am running Crystal on Vista on two machines here and ALSO am running Crystal XI on two Windows 8.0 machines here! That is really true and have no problem with Crystal Reports CRViewer.dll. If it installs properly within the install all is well. I used to have a book we made up years ago that I ran but believe its integrity was lost on a hard drive crash that took an include script!
I feel comfortable if I had a pkg that just installed crviewer.dll and its dependencies (Crystal Reports XI R1) I would be through this.
They gave me Full install and SP4 for R2 and told me to install that on client machine but of course that did not work because my programs are all compiled with R1.
I am going to freeze the system {over 600 modules} in Nov and get Crystal Reports 2013 and start major conversion to Dot Net.
but I need a quick fix to get through this.
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