Windows XP compatability

[prw]

All PC's in my company use Windows XP operating system. As a prospective purchaser, can any user tell me of any conflicts experienced between XP running Solid Works 2005, and Mastercam Mill.

I would sooner know the problems before, rather than after!

[mayday]

So far every software I have used conflicts with Windoze. but I an running both MC and SW on XP pro SP1

[Bullines]

Intel or AMD CPUs?

[Harryman]

New Dell P4 with XP pro here and all's well.

 

Welcom prw.

[Rick Damiani]

Don't use SolidWorks here (we're an Autodesk VAR), but we've got XP with SP2 on all our systems and MasterCAM runs without any problems. Same with the systems at my school.

[Müřlıń®]

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So far every software I have used conflicts with Windoze

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LOL.....

 

 

I run Mill 9.1sp2 on XP. Same things happen in XP as other versions of Windows.

 

But MC seems run better when multitasking in XP, especially if you are on the net, watching a DVD, crunching a program, printing a DOC.....ect....all at the same time.... less lockups for me than win2k for some reason I dunno why....

[connormac]

XP works OK for me. You know the usual lockups that you have to reboot from and everything else. The normal Windows stuff!!!

 

 

Merry CHRISTmas to all

[DaveR]

I heard from SW tech support to expect problems with SW 05 if you are running win XP home edition. It was designed for use with XP Pro. You did not specify in your title which one you have.

[Tom Dorgan from American Precision]

XP Home is POS for real world use. XP Pro all the way here. I run Autocad, Mcam, Mechanical Desktop and anything else I need on XP SP2 with no problems. Rest of the company is on 2000 for now but gradually winning them over. Only one will be our EE Tech. He still refuses to give up his Acad14 YUCK. Plus a lot of PLC and Ladder Logic software will not run on XP yet. Fanuc even refuses to support XP still. If you dont buy the Dataserver package you have to use a 3rd party software for communication over ethernet connection.

[Storkman]

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I heard from SW tech support to expect problems with SW 05 if you are running win XP home edition. It was designed for use with XP Pro.

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I find that hard to believe since the two are almost identical. A few networking differences is all.

[Bullines]

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I find that hard to believe since the two are almost identical. A few networking differences is all.

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Agreed. Pro has filesystem-level encryption, System Restore, 7 more simultaneous incoming network connections and the ability to join a Windows domain.

 

Otherwise, they have the same kernel. Same "guts". Same Windows XP.

[Rick Damiani]

From a support standpoint, XP Home presents you with difficulties that XP Pro dosn't. Home editon, when running on the NTFS files system, still uses file and directory permissions, but dosn't provide any easy interface to them without either booting in Safe Mode or futzing aroud with CACLS.EXE at the command line. Since license management services don't generaly run in Safe Mode, that makes dealing with permissions issues a lot more difficult on Home than on Pro.