Will AutoCAD run on Windows 10?

[Anonymous]

My dad uses Windows 7 Professional 64-bit and AutoCAD 2012 and I'm wondering if it will be compatible with Windows 10 when it becomes available? 

[Anonymous]

This is interesting. I have ACAD 2010 on a home laptop and office desktop, both running Win10 version 1709. ACAD was working fine yesterday on the office desktop when I created a quick dwg for a council meeting. I had not used the laptop since the Win10 update to 1709. When I got home from the meeting I went to the laptop to update the dwg and AutoCAD wouldn't load. After many attempts in trying to figure out why I googled a query and found these answers on this forum. But I didn't know why the office machine was working and to just verify, I went to the office to check and it was still working at the office?!?

[pendean]

And that my friend is the gamble you took, it paid off for a while, but WIn10 is always moving/updating and some point the gamble stops working until you find the portion that broke it and remove it (if WIn10 will let you do that permanently).

As you well know, Your older version of AutoCAD is not supported in Win10. What that means in plain language is the following: if it used to work and now does not, or if you are trying to install it but you cannot get it to install, or it works on one PC but not the other identical PC/setup, or any other related issue that involves your older AutoCAD version and Windows10, Autodesk (and Microsoft) will in no way shape or form ever get involved in finding out why and will never plan on issuing any fixes.

This was recently posted, it may shed some light on your issue https://knowledge.autodesk.com/search-result/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Autodesk-software-does-n...

This other tip was posted by a user in these forums and it may help too https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/autocad-2013-crashed-after-lastest-windows-update/m-p/7...

For most users these free tips help a lot http://www.howtogeek.com/228689/how-to-make-old-programs-work-on-windows-10/

For others they roll back to an older Windows OS and hang on tight to it for life.

For others still they purchase a fix from these folks http://www.longbowsoftware.com

As far as Autodesk is concerned, you will need to subscribe to a newer version of AutoCAD.

Hope these help.