IMatch 5.6.12 on Virtualbox

[rainforest1155]

Hi,

I just updated IMatch on my MacBook running Virtualbox from 5.4 to the latest version, and can't get the quick view or viewer to work anymore.
I had DirectDraw acceleration enabled in my Virtualbox, but even enabling Direct3D and increasing the video ram to 256 MB does resolve the issue.
I have the latest Virtualbox 5.0.14, latest guest additions (Virtualbox drivers) installed on Win7.

The Win7 64bit has all the latest security updates and also the Windows platform update 1.

I'm attaching a debug log from me browsing a few photos in the quick view and opening the slideshow to view a few photos as well. I also attached the dxdiag.exe information.

Is there anything that can be done so I may use my database again on the go? I understand that the viewer performance will be far from the one I get on my desktop with a proper graphics card (which is awesome by the way), but not being able to use IMatch outside of my home would be a huge bummer and not something I was aware of when upgrading beyond IMatch 5.4.

Thanks,
Sebastian

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[Mario]

The DirectX implementation in W7 on VirtualBox is severely flawed and does not work. No platform update 1 etc.
Try using Windows 10 in VB.

[rainforest1155]

Yay! After spending a good amount of time getting W10 set up (upgrade failed due to low disk space, so I just re-installed it), it seems to be working fine now. Thanks Mario!

Luckily there's also a tool to deal with the privacy concerns I had with W10.

[medgeek]

Luckily there's also a tool to deal with the privacy concerns I had with W10.

I also have privacy concerns with windows 10.  Can you please tell us what you did?

[rainforest1155]

I also have privacy concerns with windows 10.  Can you please tell us what you did?

Basically, I've turned off pretty much all the privacy settings Win10 comes on its own and for the rest I'm using O&O Shutup. You can also find more details in this tutorial. Just make sure that you have a backup of your system in case things go wrong.

[Photon]

I also have privacy concerns with windows 10.  Can you please tell us what you did?

Basically, I've turned off pretty much all the privacy settings Win10 comes on its own and for the rest I'm using O&O Shutup. You can also find more details in this tutorial. Just make sure that you have a backup of your system in case things go wrong.

As certified data protection officer I am attending and giving workshops about the privacy protection with Windows 10. To summarize: it is a mess and there seems to be no way for the mainstream user to avoid tracking. However Microsoft ist much more open to inform about what they do (not like Apple and others). I am also using O&O Shutup, but it seems that additional tools like W10Privacy also make sense, because they have much more options. Finally it is the users personal or specific decision, which services he does not need or like. This decision is a complex task without having deep knowledge of all windows services. The problem with multiple privacy tools is, that they might be necessary for good protection, but that they can overlap and result in conflicts.

Please note, that every (visible or hidden) forced update of Windows 10 can modify the privacy settings. So a regular check of settings makes sense. I do not remember the tools, but some have the option to track also this. One challenge is also the level of trust you have in ad-financed tools like DoNotSpy10. May be you replace then the windows-spying with another even worse method? As always, there are good an bad companies filling the gap of Windows with privacy, security, usability and quality.

Martin

[ColinIM]

Yours is a very interesting response Photon, thank you.

I apologise for dwelling off-topic, but this Windows 10 issue is rocking our computer-dependent world, including, for a good number of us, the worry about how to run IMatch in the future if Mario is unable - for solid reasons, beyond his control - to maintain Windows 7 compatibility.

(....) This decision is a complex task without having deep knowledge of all windows services. (....)

I'm finding this to be a complex decision even with a (reasonably) deep knowledge of (most) Windows services.

(OK, my Windows knowledge is slowly slowly getting less 'deep' now that I'm retired and no longer grappling with Windows Operating Systems on behalf of clients, but I try to keep up to date.)

I am one of Microsoft's customers who will absolutely avoid Windows 10 for as long as these privacy doubts and uncertainties remain.  For me, this is as much about the principle as it is about any actual loss of privacy.

That 'principle' is about trust, and the fact that (speaking for myself) Microsoft seems hell-bent on undermining my trust, both in Microsoft itself as an organisation, but remarkably also - and so blatantly with Windows 10 - undermining my trust in the computer Operating System on which (they hope) I would continue to run my life!

It is mind-blowing that Microsoft seems to care so little about this basic 'principle' of trust, considering that 'trust' is what has nourished the growth of Linux and Mozilla (to name just two examples).  It's also very, very, very sad.