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From: Joel Koltner on 9 May 2010 19:56 John, "John Fields" <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote in message news:krjeu5t95l03q9flh490t3o68uuogqdlgv(a)4ax.com... > Load AutoCad 14 from a CD? > > Not allowed; that's a 32 bit application and W7 only supports 64 bit > apps. Most manufacutrers seem intent on loading the 64-bit version of Windows 7 on any CPU that supports it (...no doubt Microsoft has made this a requirement to obtain decent pricing...); I suggest you might want to just flat-line the system and re-install the 32-bit flavor on Windows 7. I'm 99% certain you can use the same product key (that's printed somewhere on a sticker on the PC) to install the 32-bit version, and while it's possible that the automated activation will then fail, at worst you'll just have to call them up and manually activate it. (My experience talking with the Microsoft product activation people is that they're quite reasonable, erring on the side of, "no, we don't think you're a pirate...") Of course, be sure you have the regular system restore disks before you do this, just it case it doesn't work out. :-) > But, after a little searching, it seems like a 32 bit "XP mode" is > available, and embedded in W7, and all it takes to turn it on is > money. Something less than a couple of hundred bucks for a downgrade. Ah, you must have Windows 7 "home premium" edition? "XP mode" is just running an entire 32-bit virtual machine to run XP. If you want to try this out for free (and have, e.g., an old Windows XP CD and product key), you can try out VirtualBox instead. ---Joel
From: BobW on 9 May 2010 19:58 "John Fields" <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote in message news:krjeu5t95l03q9flh490t3o68uuogqdlgv(a)4ax.com... [snip] John, Please see my post on alt.binaries.schematics.electronic Bob -- == All google group posts are automatically deleted due to spam ==
From: Bitrex on 9 May 2010 20:19 John Fields wrote: > I've been running a Gateway something-or-other for years under XP and > have had no problems with it other than losing a hard drive early on. > > After replacing it and reloading everything, no problems until a few > days ago... > > Seems like most of the electrolytic caps on the motherboard gave up > the magic smoke and, instead of taking everything apart, replacing > them and then hoping that's all it was, I opted to get a new box and > load the software I use into it. > > So, I went down to Fry's and bought an HP p6310f PC... > > Nasty surprise when I got home with my new friend, nothing but USB > ports and a single firewire port, and no 3.5" floppy. > > Oh well, sez stupid I, for not checking it out completely before > buying it, let's see what I can do with what I've got... > > Load AutoCad 14 from a CD? > > Not allowed; that's a 32 bit application and W7 only supports 64 bit > apps. > > But, after a little searching, it seems like a 32 bit "XP mode" is > available, and embedded in W7, and all it takes to turn it on is > money. Something less than a couple of hundred bucks for a downgrade. > You could try using Sun's Virtual Box application if you have a spare copy of XP lying around. I believe you can run 32 bit guest operating systems on a 64 bit host. http://www.virtualbox.org/
From: MooseFET on 10 May 2010 09:42 On May 9, 6:31 pm, John Fields <jfie...(a)austininstruments.com> wrote: [....] > I also use ORCAD for DOS, which runs beautifully on XP, but all of the > software is on 3.5" floppies, and since there's nothing but an optical > drive on my new box, I went to Cost Plus and bought an external 3.5" > USB floppy drive. As far as I know, the Windoz Orcad will not run under W7 nor the XP virtual that runs under it. You can use DOSEMU under Linix. This is how I run DOS Orcad. It works very well. The windows-98 "ALT-Enter" doesn't exist but the command: xmode -fullscreen on works better than the full sized Windows. Unlike windows, you don't get flipped back out of full screen and the application crashed on an error.
From: Joel Koltner on 10 May 2010 15:55
"Jim Thompson" <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote in message news:1iogu5pra0lp43uofpvqmp1lfderk6mh73(a)4ax.com... > What is required to install and run 32-bit apps on Win7, "Pro" Version > ?? Well, normally they "just work" without your doing anything special? But if you want to run a (Microsoft provided) virtual machine in case you do have compatibility problems, start here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx ---Joel |