Transoft Developers

As you may well be aware, Microsoft have done some big changes in Vista.  One of these is called “Registry Virtualization”.  What this does is block any application not running as Administrator from using the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE part of the registry.  This is where global entries to the system are kept and also where U/BL stores it’s environment.  But instead of just blocking access to it, it pretends to the application that it can write there, but in reality, it is writing somewhere else.   This can pose a problem for UBL Server in Control Panel.  It may look to you like the environment is completely correct, but UBL keeps coming up in demonstration mode and you can not stop the server.  What is happening is that the environment you are looking at is being stored in a location hidden away that will never be picked up by UBL.    The solution for this is to run UBL Server as Administrator.

When you first install UBL on Vista and bring up the UBL Server from control panel, it may ask you afterwards if the application worked correctly.  You should answer “no” at this point and allow it to be installed as a “legacy control panel application”.  If you did say “yes”, then you can still get it to work but you must run it as Administrator.  To do this, right-click on the icon and “Run as Administrator”.  If you do not get this option, keep the SHIFT key pressed and try right-clicking again.

You must also use U/Gi 5.10 or above with Vista for it to function correctly.