Boy do I hate posting this :-)
I recently purchased QP2 and WOW Pro. Last night I finally downloaded QV and spent most of today trying to setup a profile, run a couple of scans in QP2 and look at the charts in WOW. I figured, with 20+ years of coding and fooling around with computers this, virtual file stuff just wouldn't be that hard. Problem was I forgot the most important rule that 20+ years of programming teaches you -- "The problem is almost always something simple that you keep overlooking while you dig for something complex."
Besides wasting an entire day chasing a simple problem, I wore out poor Andy's fingers as he answered my questions and made helpful suggestions.
Andy zeroed in on my problem a couple of hours before I realized it when he said something like, "It's got to be the VB dameon. Are you sure it's running?" I took a quick look at the tool bar tray, saw a bunch of icons including a couple of brand new ones and fired back, "Yep, the dameon is humming right along!" I could almost hear Andy's sigh when he came back with, "Well...you could try rebooting again."
Okay, I figure, can't hurt. I start closing Word documents, saving my place on the SI-QP thread, gracefully shutting down the Internet links when I remember a point somebody made on this thread back in June. Something like "remove the dameon from your startup file, put it on the desktop and only run it when it's needed." Hmmm...I meant to do that. In fact...I though I had done that. I rebooted after the last time I fooled with the profile. Why is the dameon running now anyway?
Expose the toolbar, right click on Start, click on Open, click, click...hey, the QV dameon isn't in the start file...it's on the desktop where I thought it was. Then how is it getting auto started when I reboot? Expose the toolbar. Yep that's it sitting in the tray...right click on the dameon...good grief!!!
Those two shiny new icons in the tray were ICQ and Real Audio -- two utilities I had installed in the past couple of days and hadn't gotten used to seeing. QV was sitting on the desktop with a big smirk on its face.
I fired up QV and ran the two scans Andy had sent me. When they finished, I ran WOW, pointed to the c:\meta\hotMACD directory and there were the stocks with price data all waiting for oscillators and moving averages.
FWIW, the QV I'm now happily running was downloaded on Jul 15th. As I recall it still being offered as a Beta version. Simple things will get you every time,
Carl
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