Itchy Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 Windows 7 & Vectorworks 11.5 with a dongle, will this work? Quote Link to comment
0 Pat Stanford Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 I don't think so. I just had a client who could not make it work and had to upgrade. The installer does not recognize Win 7 and insisted that he upgrade to Win 98 or ME. Quote Link to comment
0 Itchy Posted March 30, 2011 Author Share Posted March 30, 2011 Thought that may be the case I got a client dropping off their new win 7 PC and going to see what I can do about trying to get it to work, I'll post if I manage to have any success. Quote Link to comment
0 Itchy Posted April 3, 2011 Author Share Posted April 3, 2011 Well to start with VW 11.5 tells me I have the wrong operating system, and need to update to Windows NT, so to get around that I run as Admin & also in compatibility mode back to Windows XP SP3, which got past the wrong OS message, but stops on an error message saying insert the dongle - dongle is already inserted and lights up, but for some reason VW doesn't see it. I tried the drivers on the CD, and also the drivers of the Aladdin website but unfortunately no luck. Anyone got any ideas to get the dongle going correctly in Win 7? Quote Link to comment
0 Jonathan Pickup Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 it's just my opinion, but it seems wrong to get the latest operating system, and then try to use a very old version of Vectorworks on it. Quote Link to comment
0 Itchy Posted April 4, 2011 Author Share Posted April 4, 2011 Yeah I would agree on that also Jon, but who ever built the computer for them should of inquired as to what software they use, and checked its compatibility with Win 7, or one could argue they should of checked them self, but not everyone is tech savy Quote Link to comment
0 jpn Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 I'm looking at the same problem. Do you know if it will work with 11.5 that dosen't use a dongle? As for the reason I'm useing old software on a new machine, the museum I work for received Google Sketchup Pro for free and can't afford a newer VectorWorks for me so sad I know, don't everyone cry at once... I just want to be able to open some of my old files time to time. Quote Link to comment
0 rDesign Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 This might have something to do with Windows 7 being 64-bit and the drivers for the hardware dongle may still be 32-bit. If I'm running a 64-bit version of Windows, do I need 64-bit drivers for my devices? Yes. All hardware devices need 64-bit drivers to work on a 64-bit version of Windows. Drivers designed for 32-bit versions of Windows don't work on computers running 64-bit versions of Windows. Microsoft: 32-bit and 64-bit Windows FAQs Regards, Tim Quote Link to comment
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