Finale 2007 - Vista Problems

Having just spent many hundreds on a new laptop after my old one crashed, I've had to setup Finale PrintMusic 2007 on my new Vista Laptop. I've got another 30 days to activate it... even though I've already activated it. (And those calls to America aren't cheap!)

The main problem are blue triangles I get throughout various pieces. (See attached picture) Is Finale 2007 acually suited for Vista, and how can I get rid of these lines?

Ta much, ADZ.

Get a mac, that is the only solution

Ok, well I must say that it is rather odd, but Finale 2007 is rather buggy itself, perhaps it is just Finale fucking things up.

It actually looks like a problem with graphics. Could be a bad graphics card/ video card.

It might also be a problem with windows vista, or the program itself.

Have you searched the web or called/IM'ed Customer Support?

No, this was the first place I thought of.

I can't afford to call these people, I'll e-mail them. And Saiming, regardless of how well Macs operate Finale... they balls everything else up so I won't be getting one of those!

At least they work

Well my bet is that it is Finale screwing up, if you can't figure it out, why not install XP and skip Vista

After I've just spent 2 hours re-naming and re-iconing all my pictures and music? I think not!

I'll have to sort something out before I go back to Uni though.

Maybe you can go to Finale's official Help Desk, they are bound to know.

I don't think Finale 2007 is compatible with Vista. In the email I got informing me of the 2008 edition's release, "Vista Compatible" was listed under new features.

Your only option is probably to upgrade to 2008, or revert to XP.

Upgrading to 2008 would be the most sensible. Shame, I've not long had 07. I blame PC World for dishing out inferior laptops!

I am awaiting a reponse from Finale though to see what they can suggest... it seems to be the brackets causing the problems, but I'll see what they say too.

If by any chance you still have the XP installation disk that accompanied your old laptop, you could use that to install XP on your new machine. That would be cheaper than purchasing Finale 2008.

There's unlikely to be any point communicating with MakeMusic, as they'll almost certainly tell you to upgrade to 2008. It's the option that maximizes their profit, after all.