Strategy Tester Questions

Hi all. First of all I would like to thank all the members who contribute to this board. Your contributions have made learning mq4 much easier for me.

I have a couple questions about Strategy tester:

1. Lately I can't get it to work on Windows 7. I had it working for a few weeks but since I upgraded to build 226 it just hangs there .... "waiting for update". I uninstalled interbankfx metatrader and copied the files afresh to Windows 7 from my Vista machine (on which strategy tester works fine with interbankfx) and declined to upgrade to build 226. I even copied some data files into the History folder. I still can't get it to work.

2. I use "every tick" model on M15 on strategy tester. Does it take a whole day to backtest a single week? I copied some EURUSD data files, going back to 1999 into the History folder hoping it would speed up the backtesting process, but it did not make any difference.

Can someone please point out what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks in advance

When running Metatrader, make sure to "Run As Administrator"

I'm always logged in as administrator on both machines

Are you running the application as administrator?

Right click on the metatrader icon and click "Run As Administrator"

As I understand it, in Windows 7, is has to be done on a per-application basis.

Actually you're right. There's a "run as administrator" selection. I just did that, but still doesn't seem to be working. I'll log off and try again

Still can't get Strategy tester to work. I selected "run as administrator", even changed windows compatibility mode to windows vista