Originally Posted By: BIABguy
Does BIAB register itself with Windows(XP) and show up in the Add/Remove Programs list?


Band in a Box program itself, BBW.exe, does not write to the Windows Registry and therefore can theoretically run standalone.

BUT - it is important to install at least the PGMusic Fonts, PG Plugins and whatever softsynths to your system on the C: drive in order to use those things. They take up very little disk space.

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It doesn't show up in mine.


While it is possible to redirect the Installer to put the bb folder into your Program Files folder, even with good old XP I recommend not doing that, accept the default of C:/bb at install, if you want the entire shebang on the C drive. Be advised that most older machines running XP might not have a very large C drive in them, though, and the RealInstruments indeed take disk space.

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What happens exactly when you upgrade your BIAB?

Does BIAB throw the new version in the same folder as the old one?


I always install new versions right overtop of old version. That way, any and all songfiles and folders I've had and have been using and working on remain intact and ready to use as before.

BB has its own Backups file creation system that makes it possible to revert to the older version, or even revert to several or more versions back if you ever so desire, I have never had to do that for any reason in all these years.

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What does it do with the older .dll's and other files?

Does it leave them there, delete them....?



While I cannot say definitively what bb installer does with all of them, I'm fairly certain that its handling of such .dll files is apropos. Perhaps if there is a newer version of a .dll that bb absolutely needs in order to do whatever, it does install that, but since both files would have the same filename and extension, it would simply overwrite that file.

I don't think the BB installer deletes any .dlls, though, and that's because I've run softwares in the past that would pop up a little window asking me if it is okay to delete that file or not. Even XP has that feature built in, just not as comprehensive, but if Windows detects an attempt by a proggie to delete a .dll, it too should bring up a window and tell you that the .dll in question may be needed by other programs, I just tell it to keep the file if that happens. They are very small in size. Bear in mind that I don't recall ever seeing that window come up when installing copies of BB since Win95.


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