DryFire was invented, developed and manufactured in Derbyshire, England - good shooting country. Over 90% of DryFire sales go for export.

This page applies to both Vista and Window 7

Vista was the least popular of all Windows operating systems and Windows 7 is slightly better.

Windows 7 is the standard operating system with new PCs - though many large organisations insist that all their new machines run under Windows XP.

The installation process for Vista/Windows 7

Like thousands of programs, DryFire writes files (user details, configuration settings etc.) to the folder where it is installed.

The new User Account Control (UAC) prevents programs doing this (Microsoft calls this a "security enhancement") so thousands of programs that work quite happily with Windows XP will not work with Vista if they are installed in the default c:\program files folder.

Remember: you must install the software before plugging in the simulator.

There are three possible solutions.

1) Easy and quick: do not install in the default folder

Software installation must be done before you plug the simulator into a USB port.
During this process please ignore any warning screens and select Continue or whichever option allows things to carry on.

Make sure that your simulator is not plugged into a USB port.
Before inserting the DryFire CD - use Windows Explorer to create a folder called c:\DryFire
Insert the DryFire CD and when the installation screen pops up use Browse to find the c:\DryFire folder.
Continue the installation.
When installation is complete, plug in the simulator and when Windows asks for a driver point it to c:\DryFire\usb-drivers\vista
The screen grab on the right shows access to the folder containing drivers for Vista/Windows 7
Important note:if your copy of DryFire does not include a separate "vista" folder under "usb-drivers" please use the one labelled "xp-2000".
Please see below here for a complete sequence of screen grabs showing USB driver installation under Vista.
Selecting the correct folder for DryFire USB drivers under Windows Vista/Windows 7

2) Change access rights to the DryFire folder

Install DryFire into the default folder: c:\program files\dryfire but do not run the DryFire software yet.
Use Windows Explorer to find c:\program files\dryfire.
Right click on the folder name ("DryFire").
Select "Properties".
Click left on the "Security" tab.
Click left on the "Edit" button and confirm if/when the pop-up message appears.
Click left on "Users ....." in the pull down list "Group or users names". The text after "Users" will depend on the name of your PC.
Click left on "Allow" next to "Full control" in "Permissions for Users".
Click left on "Apply" and confirm if/when the pop-up message appears.
Click on "OK" then "OK" to exit.

Like you, we don't know why Microsoft made things this complicated. They must have a reason.

3) Turn off Microsoft's User Account Control (UAC)

This is a sledge hammer solution to stop all those annoying messages.

Do this before installing DryFire.

Click on the Window button (bottom left corner of your PC screen - your "desktop")
Select "Help and Support"
Enter "UAC" into the search box
Select "Turn User Account Control on or off"
Follow the instructions