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Posted by Lawrence Osborn
Oct 8, 2022 at 12:23 AM
Geoffrey,
That’s interesting. For the avoidance of confusion, my machine is now running 64-bit W11pro version 22H2. As far as I know, the original executable won’t work in 64-bit systems. Instead of a proper installation, I have simply used a copy of the Idealist folder saved from my last 32-bit setup. If you know of a way of persuading 64-bit systems to accept the executable I’d love to hear about it.
Anthony,
Yes, that post was one of mine.
Stephen,
Thanks for suggesting Zoot. I’ve tried it in the past without being sufficiently excited by it to change, but I may well take another look at it.
Yours
Lawrence
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Oct 8, 2022 at 11:19 AM
Lawrence,
Have you considered either of these apps:
These work well with plain text. Probably not all the organizational features of Idealist.
Steve
Posted by Listerene
Oct 8, 2022 at 02:56 PM
Have you tried running Idealist in a virtual machine (Hyper-V, Parallels, VirtualBox, VMWare) running whatever OS worked before? If it worked then it should work in a VM with that OS, now.
Posted by Lucas
Oct 8, 2022 at 03:57 PM
Lawrence, it is thanks to you that I have a copy of Idealist on my computer. While the “IDEAL3.EXE” installation file, which I downloaded from your blog some years ago, won’t run on my up-to-date Windows 11 system, “l32.exe” runs just fine as a portable executable the opens the Bekon version of the program. I do not remember the details of how I got “l32.exe”, but I know you’re the resident expert on the subject, so perhaps this is helpful information.
Posted by $Bill
Oct 8, 2022 at 11:38 PM
Perhaps the Windows 11 Program Compatibility Troubleshooter (find and fix problems with running older programs on this version of Windows) would do it.
Found in System/Troubleshoot/Other troubleshooters.
-Bill