2003 & 2004

I'm very tempted to try to install 2004 in a different partition and run it
with 2003. Has more than one person tried this? I tried it with 2001+ & 2003
and didn't have a lot of luck. Also has anyone tried an install of 2004 with
XP Home addition? Athlon 1.2gig processor.
Rudy

 

Different partitions won't make a difference since they still share the same
O.S. registry and common file locations unless you set up a dual boot system
to keep them totaly seperate.

Dave H

 

I don't know about having them both on XP home but I have SW01+, SW03 and
SW04 installed all on one drive. I have 4 computers and they are all setup
like that. 2 are running Windows 2000 and 2 are running XP Pro. The key is
you have to install Sw into different directories. If you look at your
Registry you will see how it's setup and you will notice that it makes one
Solidworks folder and under that there are the different versions. So I
don't know why you couldn't make it work, other than the fact you install
into the same directory.

As for Dave's reply:
Why would someone have to use a dual boot system? If you install each
version to it's own folder or directory then each version should operate by
itself. try customizing your installs and for each version of SW you add the
version number behind it (EX: solidworks01+, solidworks03, solidworks04)\

Regards,
Scott

 

Mr. Rudy -

I have here the XP home and both installed of 2003 and the 2004 and it works
too well.

Stabilities and good ups time.

Sincerefully,

Habib

 

I installed 2004 on the same drive but different folder than 2003. It was
obvious that 2004 picked up a lot of the settings out of 2003, so therefore
the conclusion is that it found the registry entries and copied or shared
them.

WT

 

A dual boot system would keep the registries totaly seperate. I don't
reccommend it though.

Dave H.

 

That maybe, but I can change the setting between the 2 versions and the
other one doesn't change to match.

Regards,
Scott

 

So it may be that it copies what it finds and then keeps them separate.

WT

 

For the most part yes, but there is still a problem with add-ins. To test
that try activating Edrawings 2004 and open SW03. You should see in the
add-ins of SW03 there is a Edrawings 2004 add-in. SW03 can't use
Edrawings04. It is recommended that Edrawings 03 becomes uninstalled when
using SW04 and edrawings 04. The add-ins are still a problem between
versions.

Regards,
Scott