UiView32 and Windows 10

As Microsoft were kind enough to offer me a free upgrade to Windows 10, I decided to upgrade my APRS Computer. It had been running UiView32 on Windows 7 for a while with no problems.
I was a bit concerned about upgrading as UiView32 is such an old program and there could be compatibility issues, namely, would it work?
I took the plunge this morning and, after shutting everything down, started the upgrade process.
It took about three hours for the update to run and completed itself with minimal input from myself.
When it was finished I was pleased to see that all my old programs were still installed. UiView32 was still set to run in compatibility mode, using Windows XP.

So, with fingers crossed, I right clicked on the icon and selected "Run as Administrator", as Windows 7 required me to do. After a short delay, the old familiar window burst into life and Uiview was running!!

It has been running for several hours now and appears to have no problems.

G0ROZ-3 stops again

G0ROZ-3 disappeared off the map again this morning. www.aprs.fi showed the last beacon at just after 0700 Hours.
I made a trip to site, via HQ to collect the keys, and found the computer locked up. Only completely disconnecting the power, switching the power back on again and starting the computer would make it work.
In spite of Surge Protection and a UPS it would seem that a power spike had locked the computer up again.
It looks like running the system on battery power will be the only way to sort it out.

G0ROZ-3 stopped again

G0ROZ-3 stopped transmitting again. A trip to site was made to check the problem this time. The only problem was a small window saying "The input is no longer valid". I have no idea what this means and nor has Mr Google.
A re-boot of the system cleared the fault and everything is working again.

Round trip to Eggardon Hill

G0ROZ-3 stopped working on Wednesday morning. Due to problems with the car, I was not able to go to site until today. They have moved the keys for the site from Dorchester to HQ, so I had to go to Winfrith to collect the keys, then to Eggardon Hill, then back to Winfrith and then home.
The problem with G0ROZ-3 was just an error opening the COM port again. A quick re-boot solved the problem.
Looks like I need more UPS power to stop this happening again.

M1ABD stopped working

M1ABD vanished from the map on Friday 10th April. www.aprs.fi showed the last beacon was sent just after 0700 Hours. Due to local problems, which have now been resolved, I was not able to visit the site until today (13 April).
Once again the computer had locked up and required me to turn of the power before it would reboot. This is the only computer I get this problem with now. Looks like I will have to set up another computer and see if it makes any difference.
Anyway, M1ABD is working again and all is well with the world!

G0ROZ-3 Stopped again.

G0ROZ-3 vanished from the map yesterday afternoon (11 March 2015). aprs.fi shows that the last beacon was sent around midday(ish).
I visited site today and found the computer had stopped working with an error message to say that it could not open the COM port as it is already in use.
This is usually caused by a electricity supply interruption, where the computer loses power but it comes back on again before the machine has time to close down properly.
A quick re-boot and all is well again.
I did take the opportunity to disable the desktop clean-up app, so that should not cause any more problems.

G0ROZ-3 stopped working.

G0ROZ-3 was missing from the map yesterday evening. I took a trip up Eggardon Hill this morning to see what the trouble was.
The computer was locked up and only removing the power and then connecting it up again would get it to re-boot.
This is the same problem I had with M1ABD the other day.
I think it is a software problem rather than a problem with the power or computer hardware.
I noticed that on both machines when they were locked up the "Desktop clean-up" icon was showing. This could be what is causing the problem. I have had a word with Mr Google and found out how to disable the Desktop clean-up program and will do so on my next visit.
Fingers crossed!!