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<blockquote data-quote="Geri O&amp;#039;Neil" data-source="post: 49997" data-attributes="member: 25">Re: Studio Manager Conundrum (off line use at this point)All I can offer is that my old Gateway started with Vista 5 years ago and Studio Manager (among other programs) was quirky. Then I installed Win 7 Pro and all of those issues went away. It shouldn&#039;t have been that way, but what can I say...Fast forward to now, I use a MacBook Pro with Parallels. I had to get Windows on the Mac pretty quickly, but my Win 7 discs were all upgrades. I had a full version of Vista, so I installed it in Parallels. SM ran, but here was this quirkiness again. Finally, a lampie we work with went all Ubuntu (I can&#039;t begin to imagine what he&#039;s going through with his networked lighting desks and all, but that&#039;s his cross to bear) gave me his full version of Win 7 Pro, and whaddya know, SM, as well as the Ashly Protea and NE software and EAW Pilot work smoother and more consistently. I wish I had an answer or a reason why this is, but I don&#039;t. I&#039;m just better off with Win 7 for the PC needs on my Mac (that and 16gigs of RAM!)Geri O</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Geri O'Neil, post: 49997, member: 25"] Re: Studio Manager Conundrum (off line use at this point) All I can offer is that my old Gateway started with Vista 5 years ago and Studio Manager (among other programs) was quirky. Then I installed Win 7 Pro and all of those issues went away. It shouldn't have been that way, but what can I say... Fast forward to now, I use a MacBook Pro with Parallels. I had to get Windows on the Mac pretty quickly, but my Win 7 discs were all upgrades. I had a full version of Vista, so I installed it in Parallels. SM ran, but here was this quirkiness again. Finally, a lampie we work with went all Ubuntu (I can't begin to imagine what he's going through with his networked lighting desks and all, but that's his cross to bear) gave me his full version of Win 7 Pro, and whaddya know, SM, as well as the Ashly Protea and NE software and EAW Pilot work smoother and more consistently. I wish I had an answer or a reason why this is, but I don't. I'm just better off with Win 7 for the PC needs on my Mac (that and 16gigs of RAM!) Geri O [/QUOTE]

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