Family Historian User Group

The initial FH screen is small regardless of the startup option used. I'll try changing some of the options, as suggested, but other than using different fonts and less pictures I can't see anything that should make a difference - but you never know. I'll also get back to FH and let them know - hope...

Mike - well done........ I had reverted back to V4 just so that I had a working copy. I changed the startup screen from the focus window to the records window, upgraded to V5 and it worked ! I then upgraded to 5.0.9 - still worked I then changed the startup screen back to the focus window and got th...

Presumably I would also have to uninstall Win 8 and anything else that I'm running with absolutely no problems under Parallels and Win 8. Not prepared to do that. Far easier to give up on FH and buy a different app that is designed to run on Mac and PC, such as Heredis. Not once has anyone agreed th...

Mike - thanks again, but................. It's the initial screen that says FAMILY HISTORIAN Version 5.0, it doesn't get any further so there is no project screen Sorry, yes it was a typo - should be 'an error with FH.EXE'. Back to my days in Foreign Exchange !! Your suggestions: (1) Run as administ...

Thanks Mike but I've tried everything you've suggested - and always get the same crash. Basically, when I try to run V5 I get the FH initial screen - but it's in a much smaller window than V4. And then I get a Windows error screen - it doesn't identify the actual error but only states that there is ...

Yep - same error............

And then I had to uninstall and reinstall V4 with upgrades yet again just so that I had a useable version.

I never really realised just how long the V4 reg key is until I had to enter it about 20 times this week. So thankful for control-V !!

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I recently changed my laptop from a MacBook. To be able to run FH I have loaded Parallels (which manages another operating system running on the MacBook. I then loaded Windows 8 64-bit. It runs perfectly in Parallels. I installed my original FH V4 and it works fine. I then ran the V4.1.2 and V4.1.3 ...