ISO win11 friendly Timesheet software w/billing CD

Need to replace win8.1 Timesheet Professional v.7.0
that will not load onto win11

Single user, desktop manual entries, able to invoice project clients billed via PDF or send to printer

Best advice will come from those finding a replacement for their own Timesheet Pro

tgiv said:

Need to replace win8.1 Timesheet Professional v.7.0
that will not load onto win11

Single user, desktop manual entries, able to invoice project clients billed via PDF or send to printer

Best advice will come from those finding a replacement for their own Timesheet Pro

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Hi folks
Possibly use EXCEL (Or decent EXCEL clone). If you are somewhat more "Computer literate" from the point of Application programming rather than purely tech you could install something like mariadb or mySql (both free) plus the odbc windows DB drivers (also free) to run this.

Good place to start from :


Cheers
jimbo

Update: Tricked win11 into allowing Timesheet to work
but in order to create invoices, its "engine" Crystal Reports by SAP needs a $300+ upgrade.
So I decided to purchase a laptop running win8.1 that will also become a quasi-backup to the main desktop win8.1

Why:
did the spreadsheet thing for years until very spoiled by Timesheet Pro 7
no inventors out there that want to boost TSP into win 11 nor any others producing even ugly brothers worthy to take its place
very poor reports from those forced to use Quick-whatever to log time then create invoices from them

Ironic we now live in a world where it's cheaper to buy hardware than softwaore biz solutions ....

You could also run it on the main computer in a Windows 8.1 Virtual Machine.

NavyLCDR said:

You could also run it on the main computer in a Windows 8.1 Virtual Machine.

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Great idea - did not know that! I think I tried some of that when forced from winXP to win8.1 and got lost, frustrated then gave up & kept the one (MYM accounting) software on a laptop for reference as I moved on to Quicken H&B.
FYI: my main desktop biz computer takes almost a week to setup on a new one with new OS, so many licenses & tweaks, bugs & gremlins to hurtle. Even on a miserable weather week, to be avoided like major surgery.

Your solution got me to Google to see if things got easier: WHEW - better but feel a headache coming on

Understand I have loads on my plate so when it comes to problems like these, I am more the drive the GTO for fun and only take as much distraction time for music as a plug/play 8-track tapes require. Read this as more the guy that needs more time enjoying life for fun and only as much distraction as plug/play HDD backups require to defend against disaster.

Again, always grateful for any solution, even if I'm not up to them ... thank you!