http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/103 Independent news, tips and thoughts from a Crystal Reports expert Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:12:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/103/comment-page-1#comment-31 Seyekul Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:06:14 +0000 http://kenhamady.com/cru/archives/103#comment-31 Here's one: One day about six weeks ago I found that Crystal XI was taking forever (over a minute) to load. In addition, our applications that run Crystal reports now were taking well over a minute to run reports that had previously taken a few seconds to appear. Between then and now I have uninstalled and reinstalled all the Crystal software, service packs, upgrades, and applications that use Crystal for reporting. I have also purchased and run two registry cleaners and done manual purging of anything Crystal-related from the registry before re-loading. To make a long story short, the problem turns out to be related to Vista's User Access Control (UAC). Crystal and our own app reporting runs fine if I disable UAC, or if I run the applications with the "Run as Administrator" property enabled. This is certainly not the case on every Vista system, but something on mine changed to cause this problem. I am just glad to finally have a work-around! Here’s one: One day about six weeks ago I found that Crystal XI was taking forever (over a minute) to load. In addition, our applications that run Crystal reports now were taking well over a minute to run reports that had previously taken a few seconds to appear. Between then and now I have uninstalled and reinstalled all the Crystal software, service packs, upgrades, and applications that use Crystal for reporting. I have also purchased and run two registry cleaners and done manual purging of anything Crystal-related from the registry before re-loading. To make a long story short, the problem turns out to be related to Vista’s User Access Control (UAC). Crystal and our own app reporting runs fine if I disable UAC, or if I run the applications with the “Run as Administrator” property enabled. This is certainly not the case on every Vista system, but something on mine changed to cause this problem. I am just glad to finally have a work-around!

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