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darylbrayman · 09-14-2009, 07:12 AM

I just got my PRS-300. I installed EBL 3 on two computers (within 1/2 of each other) a netbook running XP and a notebook running Vista Home Premium. The XP machine has continuously worked perfectly, never a glitch. The Vista machine says "This program has encountered an error and must shut down" as soon as I plug the ebook reader in. I tried, deleting, reinstalling, restarting, starting with the ebook already plugged in, plugging in after the library was opened. I could go on and on, I spent around 3 hours trying to get it to work. With the help of some kind members (MGMueller and Autumnsong) I've removed all traces of EBL 3 from the Vista machine and installed V2.5. Needless to say it works great. I've been reading threads that lead me to understand that EBL3 doesn't like Vista or Windows 7. What did Sony only have an old Windows XP machine laying around to test their software on? Inexcusable in my books (pardon the unintentional pun) Great ebook reader, crap software.

09-14-2009, 07:12 AM	#34
darylbrayman Connoisseur Posts: 76 Karma: 1944308 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Nova Scotia, Canada Device: Kobo, Mini, Glo, Aura and Aura H20	Crashing I just got my PRS-300. I installed EBL 3 on two computers (within 1/2 of each other) a netbook running XP and a notebook running Vista Home Premium. The XP machine has continuously worked perfectly, never a glitch. The Vista machine says "This program has encountered an error and must shut down" as soon as I plug the ebook reader in. I tried, deleting, reinstalling, restarting, starting with the ebook already plugged in, plugging in after the library was opened. I could go on and on, I spent around 3 hours trying to get it to work. With the help of some kind members (MGMueller and Autumnsong) I've removed all traces of EBL 3 from the Vista machine and installed V2.5. Needless to say it works great. I've been reading threads that lead me to understand that EBL3 doesn't like Vista or Windows 7. What did Sony only have an old Windows XP machine laying around to test their software on? Inexcusable in my books (pardon the unintentional pun) Great ebook reader, crap software.