Cold Fusion MX and Windows 7

Hi,
has anyone had experience with installing CF MX on a Windows 7 system?
I had trouble with Vista. I am planning to buy a new computer and they are all on Windows 7. I want to make sure if I will be able to have my CF MX installed on it without having problems.
Please advise. any help is greatly appreciated in advance.

CF was CFMX until CFMX7: CF8 was the first without it. But, yes, you're right: knowing exactly what the OP is talking about would be helpful here.
I haven't had any problem installing CF8 or CF9 on Win7 (just the Starter version of Win7 for me... it's a netbook). Then again, I had no problems installing or 7, 8 or 9 ( simultaneously) on Win Vista (Home Premium) either. So the difficulties you encountered installing on Vista were not down to CF, so if it's an idiosyncracy of how you're doing the install, or the environment when installing (eg: not being logged in as an administrator), then you're quite possibly going to have hassles on Win7 too. Still: the easiest way isn't to guess, or to ask other people: it's to try it.
If the question is simply "is it supported", then there's a web page for that:
http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/systemreqs/ (or for CF8: http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/coldfusion8/systemreqs/)
(note that clearly the "supported" matrix is a subset of the "will run on" matrix, given I've had no probs on the unsupported versions I list above)
Versions of CF earlier than CF8 are being end-of-lifed, and are not actively supported by Adobe. This is not to say they won't work, they're just not supported. One should not be running a version of CF older than CF8. Not least because earlier versions are pretty bloody slow and less stable compared to CF8.
Adam

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interesting aslbert123,
Not that I doubt you, but could you answer some questions
about your implementation that was so slow:
1.) Did you put your CFCs in the application or server scope?
2.) Were you initializing your CFCs, via CreateObject or
<cfinvoke>, on every request?
3.) Are you sure that you were properly Var'ing every
variable in your methods? (people typically forget about query
names and loop iterator variables)
4.) Could you give examples of how your inheritence was set
up?
5.) For CustomTags, did you call them the old <cf_tag>
way or the newer, better-performing <cfimport> way?
6.) How did you connect CF to Java exactly?
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Hello all,
Our webmaster recently retired, leaving me in charge of our
intranet, which uses Cold Fusion. Now, I don't know much about CF,
and our System Administrator just asked me if I had any problem
with them running Cold Fusion 7 on a Windows Server 2003 box. It
looks like they should be compatible, based on what I've read, but
I wanted to know if anyone has experienced any pitfalls with this
setup? I wanted an answer from someone "in the know" before I gave
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Thanks much!

S_Allen wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Our webmaster recently retired, leaving me in charge of
our intranet, which
> uses Cold Fusion. Now, I don't know much about CF, and
our System
> Administrator just asked me if I had any problem with
them running Cold Fusion
> 7 on a Windows Server 2003 box. It looks like they
should be compatible, based
> on what I've read, but I wanted to know if anyone has
experienced any pitfalls
> with this setup? I wanted an answer from someone "in the
know" before I gave
> my folks bad info!
>
> Thanks much!
>
They work fine on our machines. The only real issue is that
overzealous
Windows 2003 security precautions can be a hassle during
installation.
But this is well documented and easily worked around.

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