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Hi Mike I have now managed to register the software on line with windows 7, after researching and trying many things the date of the laptop had been set to 1980 by installing windows 7, once I had set the correct date it registered. I have now loaded my project on to the laptop. I am so pleased to h...

Hi Mike

Thank you for your quick reply. I will contact them and let you know what happens.
John.

Hi Mike I have had confirmed by Family Historian that what you say is 100% accurate, I never doubted you I just prefer to get things in writing. I have managed to connect the laptop to the internet and login to my account on FH website. When I try to register FH7 it is still failing to login, it say...

Hi Mike In answer to your question did I establish an internet connection the answer is yes, but would not connect with the Fh website not sure why. Had a reply from FH saying I needed to upgrade to windows 10. Having read that you are only allowed to run the FH7 software on two machines, if one cra...

Yes. those are the insructions recieved , but unfortunatly they did not work.

Thank everyone for your reply. I have tried the suggestions and have had a reply from family historian which has also failed.
Is there a way of saving my tree in FH7 which FH6 can read if so thinking of going back to FH6?
Thanks
John

Hi I have been using Fh7 on my desktopfor a month or so with no problems. I have found out an old laptop and have installed windows 7 to take FH7. I have installed it on the laptop but the laptop will not connect to the internet to register Fh7. Is there a way of fifnishing the installation without ...

Thanks Mike

Your suggestion of using windows to expand an right click and expand all worked. Thank you very much. John

the file is called
FH Project Backup yatesfh26.2.11merged3420-2020-5-28 0831.zip

Yes i have tried other zip files and none will open.
Thanks
John

Hi
I am choosing file>backup/restore>restore backup and then selecting a backup file

Hi
I have been doing a full backup in V6 on a regular basis. I have just tried to do a restore from one of these files which are zip files, but the program comes up with a box saying that "Unrecognised file format" I am using Windows 10. Any help would be most appreciated. Thanks John