Thanks for the help.

Well, the markets will be closing for the week soon, so you will not be doing a lot of testing, at least you can get things happening for next week.

I am glad you have found a solution, I know the frustrations......

Have a lot of fun with the program..!

I 'took permission' of the entire Vantage fx folder and it all works now. I'll try the same thing with Smartlivemarkets.

I think we should make a special thread for Windoze 7 problems, check out the little utility for fixing hidden files, and then explain fully how to fix the problem.

More and more people will have Windows 7 as time passes and it causes some grief when programs will not execute new files.

I am not skilled enough to explain the solutions in a way that people can understand.. lol

This may be obvious and stupid but I can't find the .ex4 file. If I can't find it then I don't expect MT4 to be able to either.

That's easy to fix - open FST expert in metaeditor, and compile it (find "Compile" button).

As the builds are different, it is not likely to be MT problem, I think Dave is on to something here, seems to be OS problem.

I tried the take ownership idea on the .dll and the mq4 files but it didn't change anything.

The Metatrader will be able to 'see' all of the files it needs in order to execute the EA.

I am no windows expert, I am quite sure that my experience tells me that until you 'take ownership', which is a bit of a dirty process, then you will not resolve the difficulty.

Perhaps you can investigate this thoroughly before making any decisions.

I found a little utility on the net, called 'Take Ownership', and I use it often, I am sorry that I do not recall using it on Metatrader 4 specifically.

I sincerely hope this is a solution for you.

daveM

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I have many instances of Metatrader and I have FST in each one of them. From what he is describing, the problem is on his machine.

Somehow Metatrader can not locate what it needs to execute the EA, that is why the question re Windows 7. I have had a lot of trouble with Windows 7, I had to take ownership of many folders to get things to work properly, however, I do not recall specific troubles with FST.

We will know more when he replies re OS

Please check and report here MT builds you're using, especially the Vantage and the Smartlive MT's.

Hmm.

In the FST folder, there's a subfolder called Metatrader, from there you can manually add the necessary files, try that too.