I have been holding off on Windows 7 but it seems I may be moving to it from XP Pro this week.
How is it working with Carlson, Land Desktop, AutoCAD, Geomatics, Pathfinder, ArcView10?
Plotters, Printers, Monitors?
ActiveSync?
Any comments or advice?
Windows 7 is fine for LDT2009 or later.
Win7 boots up pretty quick, which is nice. I have the 64bit setup and 8Gb of Ram, which should help with multitasking. I'm not sure that it helps anything run faster or not, but I don't think it has locked up, ever.
You will need new drivers for everything but these can almost always be found. Not everything has a Win7 driver, but Vista drivers work. There is a Vista version of activesync, for example.
No, it isn't all sunshine and flowers, but after 8 months on Win7 64x I would not be buying a new XP machine.
"Different, but good" pretty much sums it up...
No problems with Acad/Carlson(demo)/anything else... Plotting gets a little more interesting running 64-bit versions, finding drivers, etc... But still worth it, and I'd do it again given the choice.
Bob K.
Anchorage, AK
I have been told that the 7 is much better by my local computer wiz. Thinking about the switch and double monitors.
jud
Do the double monitor thing anyway.
Your regional computer wiz (me, LOL) says Windows 7 is much better, too. 🙂
Hey y'all, I just got a new computer loaded up with Windows 7 Ultimate and have loaded up Carlson Survey 2010 with no problems at all. Windows 7 sets up MUCH easier tham my earlier XP. Setting up email accounts is instant and the software loads up all of the new drivers you need for your printer, etc. All by itself. it just does it.
Now,I am a 62 year old Mississippi red neck and I had no problems with it at all. That being said, if you have problems, you might not want to mention it in public. 😛
ActiveSync has been replaced by Windows Mobile Device Center.
I haven't seen 7 yet. but Pro is head and shoulders above Vista.
SJ
> I haven't seen 7 yet. but Pro is head and shoulders above Vista.
I would strongly disagree with that.
I find Vista to be quite a bit better than XP, and Win 7 to be better than Vista. After using Win 7 for a while, I don't even like to use XP, even briefly.
The 2010 and 2011 versions of Autodesk software also work noticeably better on both Vista and Win 7 than on XP.
We are currently running XP PRO 64bit w/dual monitors on all our Cad machines.
IT says that we are going to be rolling out WIN 7 by December.
Only anticipate problems with TGO which there is a easy fix (so I am told).
The main reason that we are rolling out WIN7 is b/c MS will be stop supporting XP at some point next year.
Hopefully they will do the roll out while I am on Christmas vacation.
Sorry, but never could get LDD 2007 to load on Vista. Sometimes when I plugged up the Recon it would work fine with Mobile Device center, sometimes not. I never got it configured properly to run Survey Link, would reconfigure all the USB ports to the point the printer would not work, or my keyboard would stop responding.
I bought a used laptop with XP Pro, everything works, problem solved.
Funny story re: 32-bit versus 64-bit
A little off-topic, but here goes:
For a long time, nobody in our office had Vista or a 64-bit machine -- we'd all fairly recently got new XP machines.
One day i heard from a Copan user (not in our office) that it wouldn't run on his 64-bit Vista machine. Then another. So, I was careful to tell everyone that Copan wouldn't run on 64-bit Vista machines.
Even someone in our office got a 64-bit Vista machine and confirmed the same problem.
Then i decided i needed to find a solution. After all, 7 is coming, the world doesn't stand still, etc. So i tried to run Copan on his machine, from its location on our file server. (Most users in our office run it from the server to be sure of using the very latest version.) I wanted to see the error message, maybe i can start from there.
No error message. Program ran fine! After scratching around a little, i discovered the problem was not with Copan itself, but with the copan installer: I had one line in the installer script that essentially said "Only install on 32-bit machines". Removing that one line now meant Copan could be installed on 32 or 64-bit machines.
To this day, some of my bosses think i worked especially hard to produce an advanced 64-bit version of Copan!
I don't often say this, but sometimes the solution, in software, is easier than could have been imagined.
I guess the problems, if they exist, for other softwares running on the new windows are either as simple to solve as mine was, or are to do with drivers (as already suggested by others).
