Installing SW 2009 on Windows 7

[msupemby]

Our company recently purchased new Dell Precision computers for all of our engineering dept. The IT dept and management would like to keep the Windows 7 OS (x64) on the computers.

Because of that, I was wondering if anyone could provide some advice or tips on installing SW 2009 on computers with Windows 7 (x64). Is is pretty straight forward? Anything special need to be done? I am fully aware that SW09 is not supported under Windows 7 and is also not supported by our VAR but have seen some internet traffic stating it has been done successfully. This is just temporary until SW2010 sp1.0 comes out.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

 

[AnnaWood]

Yes, it is very straight forward. Install and run.

I have been running SW209 on Windows 7 for a while now.

SW will not be officially supported on Windows 7 until SW2010 SP1.

http://www.solidworks.com/sw/support/SystemRequirements.html

Cheers,

Anna Wood
Anna Built Workstation, Core i7 EE965, FirePro V8700, 12 gigs of RAM, OCZ Vertex 120 Gig SSD
SW2010 SP0, Windows 7

http://www.solidmuse.com

http://www.phxswug.com

 

[ctopher]

...and don't forget to turn off virus scan before installation.

Chris
SolidWorks 09 SP4.1
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SolidWorks Legion

 

[bguenther]

I am very much looking forward to Windows 7 with Solidworks 2010.
Our company has put Windows 7 on 2 computers here with Solidworks 2010 just for testing and so far it looks great.

Ben Guenther

http://www.lmsoftworks.ca