Vista Upgrade Problem

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Originally Posted by Tristan Lall

That's what I find a little astonishing about this situation. Vista has been released to the public since last October, and was in public beta or release candidate states for more than a year prior to that. Considering that it was (at that point) the next Microsoft workstation-class operating system, you'd think that software makers would be keeping better track of the requirements. Almost all of the "issues" with CAD software and Vista to date have been stupid things like needing administrative access to run the program. Any developer who's been watching Vista for any length of time knows that the move to running software as a standard user is one of the pillars of Microsoft's security plans—hence UAC and the roadblocks to running a program with administrative rights by default. Surely they could have begun to account for that in the nearly two years since Vista was first previewed to them.

Just as an interesting point of comparison, Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 3.0 M030 (that's an old datecode, predating Vista) works perfectly under Vista, running with standard permissions. It may be a simplistic comparison, but if PTC could get it right, why are others having such trouble?

Yes I totally agree, I myself run vista, and it is very annoying when you get really excited about drawing up something for robot, and end up not even being able to install a program to do it. It is just very frustrating.