Hi Stacey,
Did you try running it on Win XP?
We can only support DashBoard 6.0 and later on the more recently available Windows operating systems with these specifications (copied from the user guide, which it looks like you already read).
Microsoft® Windows® 8 or Windows® 7 Systems
The following are the minimum requirements when installing DashBoard on a Microsoft® Windows® system:
"¢ 32bit or 64bit configurations
"¢ Intel® Pentium 4, 1.6GHz (Intel® CoreTM 2 Duo recommended)
"¢ Minimum 2GB RAM (4GB or more recommended)
"¢ 300MB available in HD space
"¢ Microsoft® Internet Explorer® version 8 (minimum)
Note that Microsoft plan to withdraw support for XP in 6 months time.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/endofsupport.aspx
Regards,
John
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