upgrading solidworks 2009 in windows 7
November 27, 2009 9 Comments
Anna Wood did a blog post about her frustration with SolidWorks 2009 SP 5.0 Not Allowed To Install On Windows 7 w/ SWIM. She later updated her post with how to get it to install using manual downloads from the Customer Portal.
This morning in my attempt to also upgrade to SolidWorks 2009 SP 5.0 on my Windows 7 machine I stumbled across another workaround for this problem.
Windows 7 (and Vista) include a compatibility tool that allows you to run programs for other versions of Windows. The workaround that I came across this morning includes telling the SolidWorks Installation Manager to run in compatibility mode for Windows Vista. To activate this option you need to go to Start > All Programs > SolidWorks Installation Manager > Check For Updates.
Once you are to this point RMB click on Check For Updates and select Properties. This will open up another window like the image below. Click on the Compatibility tab and in the Compatibilty mode box check the box by Run this program in compatibility mode for and then select Windows Vista (Service Pack 2) from the drop down list. I imagine that the other option for Windows XP and Windows Vista would work as well for this but I used the Windows Vista (Service Pack 2) setting.
Once you are finished, click Apply and you are all set to go to download the SolidWorks 2009 SP 5.0 upgrade.
Jason,
Excellent! Two work arounds to get SolidWorks 2009 SP5 to install.
Why did SolidWorks need to block the install in the first place requiring us to find work arounds?
Thanks for your post.
Cheers,
Anna
This looks to be the best workaround for this issue. Its much nicer than having to go manually download the files and use the old installer. I can see a lot of edu people using this method to install 2009 on Windows 7 for the next 1/2 a year.
Jason,
Success! Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
This is much better than downloading, unzipping and installing all those files manually.
Appreciate it. TimO
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Jason,
Great, Thank you for the how to guide! Very useful, quick and simple.
Currently installing SP5 as I type this.
Cheers,
Richard
It works! Thanks.
Has anyone installed PDM Enterprise SP5 on Win 7?
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