If you have an old copy of TIS2000, you will find it won't install on modern 64-bit Windows. It will fail because part of the install process uses 16-bit installers and 64-bit Windows won't run 16-bit programs but you can make it work if you are happy to do a little computer work; here's how:
First off, if you make a mistake, you need to clean up before you retry the install and you need to do this:
First off, if you make a mistake, you need to clean up before you retry the install and you need to do this:
- From the Windows Task Manager, stop the "TB server"
- Delete the Windows service entries for "COSIDS_TB" using "sc delete COSIDS_TB" from an administrative command prompt
- Use "regedt32" to delete the registry tree for "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\GM"
WARNING - Mess up your registry and your machine might never boot again so be careful - use "rmdir /s <directory>" to delete the entire directory where you tried to install TIS2000 ("c:\program files (x86)\cosids" is the normal default).
- Now you should be ready to try again.
- Unpackage the TIS200 package (extract) using tools such as "7-zip" (freeware available online)
- Use "dir /s /b" to list all the instances of "setup.exe" and rename them to something like "setup16.exe" (just leave them there for reference)
- Download a 32-bit instance of the InstallShield "setup.exe"; you might be able to find one on the official InstallShield website or you might need to use "another site"
- Put a copy of 32-bit "setup.exe" wherever you now have a 16-bit "setup16.exe"
- Double check you changed them all!
- Start an administrative command prompt
- From the directory where you have extracted TIS2000, run the "autorun.exe" and things should install
- If all went well, after the lengthy install process, TIS2000 should be installed and should start
- Check the "Wiring Diagram" app as this will confirm that the underlying (Apache) web server (which hosts most of the database pages) is also running.
