AutoCAD 2004/2005/2006 DWG Format

[#1]

I sorta went through this same thing when I migrated from Win2k to Vista -- "known compatibility issues" with the new OS. Somehow, Vista held my hand and helped me install acad 2005 okay.

Win 7 Home Premium upgraded my machine from Vista Home Premium with little hassle, leaving all my installed applications in place, and to my knowledge all seem to run okay except AutoCAD. I get the above compatibility alert, click the "check for solutions" button, am directed to the message "download fix", or something like that. I download the fix, which is actually an exe file for Service Pack 1, I run that. Then when I attempt to run AutoCAD, I get the same two buttons to click, "check for solutions" or "run".

This time I choose "run" but nothing happens. I check my Task Manager and see that Autocad is not one of the apps loaded.

Should I proceed to uninstall, then reinstall acad?

My last resort, I think, is to create another disk partition and install Windows 2000 Pro there. I don't want to do that, however.

Any tips?

Len Miller

[#2]

Win7 Pro and above, not any home variant, have XP compatibility mode for
running old software.

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Dean Saadallah
http://LTisACAD.blogspot.com
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[#3]

Hi Dean,

Thanks for replying. Hmmm ... looks like Win 7 Home Premium is a step back from Vista Home Premium in that one respect. My Vista had the compatibility mode, which was how I was able to run 2005.

A new partition with win2k looks like my only alternative.

Len

[#4]

This link may be helpful for running Win 7 in compatibilty mode. So far I have had no problems with it.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/316-compatibility-mode.html

[#5]

Hi Mary,

I browsed the script page from that link you gave me. It looks encouraging and I hope to try it by tomorrow.

Thanks very much,
Len

[#6]

Hi, I have a serious proble, due a i´m not allowed to run Autcad 2005 on mi Windows 7 Ultimate Edition, i try set the compatibility options as windows XP Service Pack 2, as Service Pack 3, As Windows 2000, as every version of windows listed on the compatibility options, and check the box for the "Run as Administrator", and the ACad still not working, what esle i can do, becouse a don´t want to downgrade to Win XP...

[#7]

See if the second response in this thread helps:

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/AutoCAD-2000-2000i-2002-Archive/Running-AutoCAD-2002-in-Windows-7-Pro-...