Re: Mathematica, Windows 2000 and Service Pack 3 (The good, the bad and the ugly ?)
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- Subject: [mg38952] Re: Mathematica, Windows 2000 and Service Pack 3 (The good, the bad and the ugly ?)
- From: fulvio.spagna at intel.com (Fulvio Spagna)
- Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 06:10:38 -0500 (EST)
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lalu_bhatt at yahoo.com (Bhuvanesh) wrote in message news:<b08lqn$7se$1 at smc.vnet.net>...
> fulvio.spagna at intel.com (Fulvio Spagna) wrote:
> > Has anybody encountered problems with Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 ? It
> > appears to change the way Mathlink works in Mathematica 4.0.
> > <...snipped...>
> > Additionally, Mathematica 4.2 installation will not complete (after
> > asking whether or not I want to enter password, Mathematica fails to
> > launch). After starting Mathematica manually, and having entered pwd
> > information, JLink fails
> >
> > Needs["JLink`"]
> >
> > InstallJava[]
> >
> > causes a file browser to pop-up and asks to select some non otherwise
> > specified file.
> >
> > I have reported the problems to Wolfram support which seemed surprised
> > by this ...
> >
> > Fulvio
>
> I am surprised too, because I have been using Mathematica 4.0.x,
> Mathematica 4.1.2, and Mathematica 4.2.x on my Windows 2000 sp3
> computer with no problems.
>
> Has anyone else here experienced this kind of problem?
Bhuvanesh,
Did you take the steps of installing Mathematica 4.2 on a machine
which had Whidnows 2000 + SP3 ? I would like to reiterate that the
previous problems was observed on three completely different machines,
all running Microsoft Windows 2000, so I am hard pressed to believe
that this is a fluke. Two of the machines, the ones that had all of
the latest Windows Update, failed installation (it never completed)
while the third, which had not been updated after SP2, worked fine. It
may very well be that if you update windows to SP3 AFTER Mathematica
4.2 is installed you may not have (or notice) a problem {a problem, it
seems worth repeating, which is noticeable ONLY with Mathlink and
JLink, everything else seems OK ). You should try installing
Mathematica 4.2 on a computer running Windows 2000 with all of the SP
and updates, and then you may give us an update/comment on whether or
not you have a problem. As it stands, I must conclude that the
software does not run under Windows 2000.
Fulvio