If you are a restaurant owner and use Radiant Systems Menulink program with your point of sale system you might run into problems trying to get Menulink to work with Windows Vista. Occasionaly everything will work just fine after the install. Many times however you will wind up getting a strange error. Something like “xml parse error at root level 0″. What is happening is that when Menulink is installed the “menulink.config” file is set with too high a security level. When you run the Menulink program for the first time it is supposed to write and save the proper connection information to this file, but it cannot because of the file permissions. The first thing you will need to do is change the permissions on the file. Navigate to:
C:Program FilesMenulink
In the folder will be a file called “menulink.config”. Depending on how your computer is set up you may not see the “.config”. Right click on the file and click on ‘properties’ then click on the ’security’ tab. In the top field click on the “All/User” or “Administrator” level then click the ‘edit permissions’ button. In the bottom field check all of the “Allow” boxes. Without this step you will not be able to make changes to the file which is what we are going to do next.
Find and open the “menulink.config” file on a different computer that is running Menulink without any issues. You may have to right click on the file and choose “Open With” or “Open” and then choose “Notepad” to view it. Copy everything that is in the good configuration file and paste it into your Vista configuration file and save it. Now try running Menulink like you normally would.
VOILA!
