Firebird 1.5 was written (long) before Windows 7 and before things like UAC existed. Perhaps Firebird 1.5 does not work correctly with Windows 7 or requires additional effort to work. I suggest installing Firebird 2.5.2 (Update 1) , since this is the latest version and, as you know, works with Windows 7.
Another problem may be that local system connections do not work, as I seem to remember that Firebird 1.5 uses the old local protocol, which does not work on newer versions of Windows. This protocol has been replaced by Firebird 2.0 . For a workaround to include the host name in the CREATE DATABASE or CONNECT statement, for example:
create database 'localhost:C:\test.fdb' user 'SYSDBA' password 'masterkey';
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