Wolfson Unit Software Microsoft Vista^(tm) compliance

This information was last updated on 4th March 2008.

Q. Is Wolfson Software Microsoft Vista^(tm) compliant?
A. The short answer to this is yes. The Wolfson Unit suite of Windows programs has been tested on a computer with Vista installed and the programs all appear to function correctly. There are some issues relating to Help files, Hardware Dongles and the ShipMotions program that can be resolved, please read on...

If you have any further questions that are not answered in the details below then please contact the Wolfson Unit.

Help Files

The help file format (.HLP) supplied with our software is no longer supported in Microsoft Vista but you can still view the files with no problem. This is explained in detail in this Microsoft article. You can view our help files in Vista by downloading the WinHlp32.exe program from this Microsoft page.

Hardware Dongles

Printer serial port style dongles are no longer supported in Vista. The new style USB type dongles work with no indicated problems and the third party supplier ensures everything is OK. If you still have a printer port style dongle you can upgrade to a USB dongle at a minimal cost. Please contact the Wolfson Unit for more information.

ShipMotions Program

The ShipMotions program relies on background code that has not been compliant with 64bit operating systems. We have recompiled this code and it is now compliant, please download the latest version from our Customer Download Area.

Digitizing Tablets

Some of our software is compatible with digitizing tablets. At present there is no support for this option in Vista as we have not tested this functionality completely, it may or may not work depending on the age of the digitizer and format. Our HST program has been updated to use third party drivers for using the digitizing tablet and compliance is now reliant on them to update their drivers accordingly.