...And just like that, TCCx64 works. No other dependencies on the part of DSOUND.DLL, but then I'm not invoking anything that would require it. I like easy solutions... Thanks for the suggestion, Rex.

I'm not having any issue with 2008R2 in "full" install; it's specific to the Core version, which cannot have DirectX installed. My environment is almost 100% virtual (I <3 VMware), so I use Server Core whenever possible, not just because of the security surface area, but because the resource...

Note: when I tried the x86 (32-bit) version, it was fine. I guess I'm so used to x64 that I didn't even think about that option...

I searched the forums, but didn't see that anyone has gotten TCCx64 to work on 2008 R2 Core--or even had a problem trying. I'm just messing with 13.04 trial, and trying to run tcc.exe results in the error "The program can't start because DSOUND.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling...

Aha! I assumed that meant something else. (I guess I need to hang out here more often, but the product "just works" so often that I rarely need help!) Headed there now....

Gaah! I'm an idiot. I'm so used to running it from a shortcut that has the permanent "run as admin" enabled that I confused that CUA prompt with the need for elevation to do HKLM writes. I apologize; it was late, and I wasn't thinking clearly. However: if the code explicitly looked to see...

Suggestion written up and submitted (and I don't think my proposal would result in awkwardness). Please feel free to add your vote to the thread.

TC13 currently cannot be registered for "all users" by saving registration information in the "local machine hive" of the system registry (HKLM). Multiple users of the same machine are therefore required to each go through the process of registering the product. Worse, registration always...

So: even if I register as an admin user with full privileges, there's no way to get it in HKLM so that it's shared? Or does TC13 require write access during registration checks during "regular" use?

So what's the trick to register for all users? I copied the installation from one computer to another (I have a multi-machine license) and ran tcc as admin on the new computer. As expected, it came up in eval mode. I registered the software successfully using "option", exited and logged...

The Help (search "registration") needs to be updated to reflect this change in policy. I'm not happy with it, but I can survive.

Ever need to know if a given command is available within your batch file at runtime? This function lets you know if a command is available and what it's source is by using the internal WHICH command as a function: which =%@exec[@set _which=%@left[3,%@word[3,%@execstr[which...

I had been using a "cmd-style" custom icon for 4NT/TCC for years (in my version, the "prompt" is "J:\" instead of "C:\"), which scaled very nicely from "itty-bitty" to "holy cow that's a big icon". To me, the change to the icons is a welcome one, and I no longer have to customize the...

Have been struggling with this since going to v12, and now that I'm on v12.01, I'd like to get it sorted out. I have a license key, and after entering it on an "installer box", I copied the contents of the installed folder (including TakeCommand12.key) to a thumbdrive. No matter how I do it...

Okay, I'm loving the built-in support for SFTP that's now in v11. Yay! However, in order to get a bulletproof script that runs unattended, I need to be able to automatically acknowledge the fingerprint that the remote host returns when connecting using either IFTP or a "direct" call in case the...