MathCAD 6 installation on XP 2

[AllanGreen]

Hi Everyone,

A long while ago (it now seems) we purchased MathCAD 6 for a project which involved mathematical analysis. Ten years (and several PCs) have now passed by and i suddenly have a small optimisation problem for which MathCAD would be ideal. So I sorted out the old floppy discks, (does anyone else remember those?!) and tried to run Setup. Sadly this crashed my XP SP2 machine (several times).

The obvious advice would be to upgrade to the current version (at £800 for a couple of hours use this seems pricey.) Alternatively I could uninstall everything and reload Win95. I know it used to work!

Or, has anyone else faced this and managed to install it?

Thanks for reading this far,

Allan

(The error message says something like (probably not verbatim) "DDE failed to respond to exit", and is displayed shortly after the MathCAD splashscreen is displayed. At this point i get to choose retry/continue/close; the former two seem to do nothing, close leads me to dire warnings about the instability of my subsystems and a Windows restart.)

 

[IRstuff]

Have you tried to run the install with Win95 compatibility turned on?

TTFN

FAQ731-376

 

[GregLocock]

v4 runs on XP

Hell, v4 runs on Linux! via WINE

So I'm a bit surprised to hear that v6 won't.



Cheers

Greg Locock

Please see FAQ731-376 for tips on how to make the best use of Eng-Tips.

 

[AllanGreen]

Thanks both of you for your comments...

When I got I IRstuff's suggestion (yes, I should have thought of that!) I was at home so I tried a test install of Mathcad 6 on my home pc (which has XP on it) using compatiblity mode, no problems whatsoever...so I thought we had the answer. I then retried it at work this morning using it and (naturally) the previous problem was still an issue.

So, as far as I can tell, the problem isn't with XP at all (as Greg implied) but rather it's a configuration issue with my work PC. Looks as though I need to uninstall everything one app at a time...

Thanks very much for the tips, I'm very grateful.

Allan.

 

[AllanGreen]

(Ah, on rereading the above it looks as though I am suggesting that Greg thought the problem was with XP, which is in fact the opposite of the case! Sorry Greg)