I Need a Borland Sidekick replacement.

[Caliban]

Greetings.

For years, I've used the Sidekick notecard program from Borland - it's a great program, infinitely customizable, very easy, solid. Worked great in all iterations of Windows from 95 through Vista (see screenshot).

Well, I now have a Win 7 64-bit machine as my main, and I cannot get Sidekick to run - trust me, I've tried all the tricks.

So, I'm looking for a replacement. I'm not a database hound, so I don't like the OpenOffice or Windows Contacts formats - I just need a simple, free notecard program that's 64-bit compatible. I've tried EverNotes, Open Contacts, etc., and they are not up to snuff. AZZ Cardfile is not free, despite claims otherwise.

I'll try any and all suggestions - thanks in advance.
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[theefool]

Have you tried copying the software from your old computer to your new one?

[tgell]

Hello Caliban,
I have not had any experience with this but you might want to take a look at it.

http://www.fonlow.com/opencontacts/index.htm

[Caliban]

Hey, theefool.

Yeah, I've got the setup files and everything - it just will not run on a 64-bit machine, even in a virtual box, in 32-bit emulation, or in any type of compatibility mode. It's a really old software, with copyrights of 1984 and 1995, so I'm not going to waste any more time trying to crank it up. I just need a similar program that'll run on modern machines.

@ tgell: Yep, tried Open Contacts, but I had a lot of trouble trying to import the databases. I'll give it another shot, but I got a bad feeling about it.

[theefool]

Well, I have it running on a xp vm right now, just can't get passed a weird error on windows 7.

[satrow]

@ theefool, does your VM log a corresponding error?

[theefool]

No, it works in the VM, just not in 7. I essentially, copied it from the vm, to win7. It gave an error about a missing .dll. I copied the .dll, and got an odd error.

[theefool]

@Caliban: What version of windows 7 are ye running? Home/Premium/Pro/Enterprise/Ultimate?

[theefool]

Success, I guess.....

I have it running in "xp mode".

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/vir.../download.aspx

[Caliban]

Originally Posted by theefool

@Caliban: What version of windows 7 are ye running? Home/Premium/Pro/Enterprise/Ultimate?

Home Premium, 64-bit - which of course, will not run XP Mode - which of course, I didn't know before spending an hour downloading and installing 3 different MS packages, only to find out that it won't run on this machine...

[theefool]

Sorry. uh, upgrade? I've read other threads where you can get it to work natively in windows 7 x64. I just can't do it, since I don't have the CD. The download I found was the 1 file solution. Others who have ran it, were using the multiple disk option. I don't have those, couldn't find them. Otherwise, I'd help out. Pretty neat software.