Windows 10

[Glenn Williams]

>>FWIW: Last night I installed Windows 10, lost my HP DesignJet 430 plotter
>>and my WinLINE driver.

>>Anybody out there in DataCAD land have a solution?

>>I'm wondering whether I should revert back to Win 7, that would be the easy
>>way out of this mess.

>>TIA,

>>David
>>David Haynes AIA

David:

I installed Windows 10 on one of my machines and quickly did the painful uninstall going back to Windows 8.1. I didn’t have DadaCAD installed on the machine but it was a mess enough. It’s more a virus than an OS. No wonder its free. I’m going to wait until I hear better things about a subsequent version with bugs fixed before I reattempt an upgrade.

Cheers,

Glenn Williams
Architect , NCARB
+1.310.895.0147

[DwightB]

On the contrary, I loaded w10 on Monday.  It took a few tweaks to get my laptop and attached monitor back to the correct resolution, had to reinstall one simple program, needed a bit of help to deactivate and re-activate DataCAD, but otherwise, seems faster.  Is ok by me.

[James Goodman, AIA]

I have updated two machines, 1 from Windows 7 Pro and 1 from Windows 8.1 Pro without any problems. I too had a screen resolution on the 8.1 machine but Windows found an updated driver automatically.

 

So far, so good.

 

James Goodman, AIA

 

 

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[Robert Scott]

Having just gone back to W7 Pro from W8.1 Home on a computer I had had built I could not be happier.  I did ask my computer builder/guru his thoughts and received this response:

Regarding Windows 10, I would hold off for a few months at the least before updating. There are bound to be at least a few minor bugs/glitches. There isn't going to be any noticeable performance increase and Windows 7 will continue to receive security updates until 2022 so there really is no hurry. I won't be updating any of my systems. I have Windows 10 running on a virtual machine and don't particularly find anything special about it. It might be valuable for mobile/touchscreen/tablets but other than that, Windows 7 is solid.

I'll take his advice and live my desktop alone but I will be updating my laptop...anything has to be better than W8.1 which almost drove me to a Mac :)  

My 2 cents...

Robert

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[Roger Donaldson AIA]

I always wait a few weeks to let others be the guinea pig, sometimes not updating at all until I buy a new machine.  I'll probably do my Surface Pro 1st, since I use that the least.   Thinking off a new work station anyways, will get that with W10.

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[Paul Nida]

I installed Win10 on my laptop on the Sunday after it was released. I had two minor problems, the first one was with my touch pad. It worked but I didn't have all of the gesture functions that I had before. I tried updating the driver but that didn't help. I then tried updating it a second time and it solved the problem for the most part, but the gestures in Win10 are different than the ones I had before. It just takes some getting used to. The other problem I had was with an older web based program. It will not work with the new browser that comes with Win10, that's wasn't surprising because it won't work on Chrome, Opera or anything else I have tried it with. I had to find Internet Explorer because that is the only browser it seems to work with. Its there you just have to find it, and I like it better that the new browser.

On 8/13/2015 2:34 PM, DwightB wrote:

On the contrary, I loaded w10 on Monday.  It took a few tweaks to get my laptop and attached monitor back to the correct resolution, had to reinstall one simple program, needed a bit of help to deactivate and re-activate DataCAD, but otherwise, seems faster.  Is ok by me.

[wayne allen]

This might help someone trying to use old versions of Datacad  on windows 10.

I  managed to get win10 to run datacad 10.03 by doing the following:

• Update Win10
• Installed to C:\datacad
• Installed HLDVV.dll hardware lock drivers from Dcad website but even after installing hldvv.dll to the windows\sytem\sysWOW64 the hardware lock was not recognized ("No Hardware Lock Found")
• Googled Datacad posts on Hlvdd.dll issues and found something on Chief Architect's site on similar problem solved by downloading latest Hardware lock drivers from Sentinel site.
• http://sentinelcustomer.safenet-inc.com/sentineldownloads/?s=&c=Software+Developer&p=Sentinel+HASP+HL&o=all&t=all#latestDD  - downloaded the HASP/LDK driver
• Installed their driver, not even a  reboot and DCAD 10 is off and running. (And my lock is paralell, I was about to give up  try my usb plus one but I seemed to have lost that.)
• 10.03 (10.05 actually with the dcad update) is all I need.  I have Datacad Plus but just never got around to learning the new tricks. If it ain't broke don't fix it (apologies to Paul Keating) 

Wayne Allen,

Sydney, Australia