Solidworks 2007 and windows vista 2

[ARamsay]

I am having trouble running sldworks on my new laptop which has vista home premium.
The installation goes fine and I can run sldworks when it prompts me at the end of installation. However once I close the program and try to open it at another time, windows gives me a message saying Soliworks has stoped working, windows will close the program. So now I can't even open the program.

Can anyone help me with this problem.

Thanks in advance,
AR

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Have you tried running SW06 using the XP compatability mode?

 

[SBaugh]

Vista home premium is not supported - see thread559-180462 it explains it all.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

faq731-376

 

[G1DESIGN]

Jason yes

i have vista running on xp both the existing install from disc

and sw for vista beta

in fact sw for vista was a bigger headache than running xp in sp2 mode

its slow but not unworkable

 

[Theophilus]

For whatever it's worth (if you didn't already know this):

http://badvista.fsf.org/what-s-wrong-with-microsoft-windows-vista

Jeff Mowry

http://www.industrialdesignhaus.com

Reason trumps all. And awe transcends reason.

 

[phonix]

An obvious commie with a comment like "Please join us on the side of freedom by saying NO not just to Windows Vista and other DRM-enabled products, but to proprietary software in general."

I do regret installing Vista, and I am very glad my new laptop came with XP and they only mailed me Vista later (which I am not going to install now).

On the plus side, Vista looks nice and cleans up some XP user interface nasties.

 

[Theophilus]

Yeah, I don't take the stance of the apparent site owners in lots of regards--so take that article with a grain of salt, too (could be lots of distortions/exaggerations in favor of their own stance).



Jeff Mowry

http://www.industrialdesignhaus.com

Reason trumps all. And awe transcends reason.