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ZoltanTurzo1-Visitor
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February 23, 2013
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Solution to the compatibility problem MathCad 14 with Windows 7

Dear Folks!

I found the solution to the problem mentioned:

The problem is that MathCad 14 does not work correctly under windows 7 (32 and 64).

The solution:

Install MS Visualstudio 2005 prof edition before installation of MathCad. (I do not know wich components of it helps, but it solved the problem)

I hope it helps for someones!

Regards

Z. Turzo, PhD

University of Miskolc

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Werner_E
Werner_E25-Diamond I
25-Diamond I
February 23, 2013

I am not sure which posting you are referring to, but for whatever its worth:

If you want to install Mathcad 14 on a clean Windows 7, you must check that the following is installed:

In your case it seems that the latter was missing.

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ZoltanTurzo1-VisitorAuthor
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February 24, 2013

Dear Werner!

There were some post sin this subject 2 years before. I red them, cause I had a problem on windows 7 os and mathcad 14. There was no solution there, Finally i found the solution unintentionally elsewhwre, but the previous posts were years ago i thought it is better to post as new one.

Your solution req. less storage cap. then mine, Visual studio aprox 2.6 GB.

I found all comp u mentioned, except MDAC 2.6 or later. How can I find a package to install it?

Regards

Z. Turzo, PhD

University of Miskolc

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Werner_E
Werner_E25-Diamond I
25-Diamond I
February 24, 2013

Its not my solution, you can findit here in the forum

http://communities.ptc.com/message/167741#167741

and I think it was in the release notes of MC14. As MC14 never was released to be compatible with anything higher than Win XP, Win7 is not covered in the notes. Compatibility with Win7 seemed to have been a major reason for the release of MC15.

On my Mathcad 14 (M020) CD there is a directory \PreReq which includes, among others (dotnetfx, langpack,msxml), the file MDAC_TYP.EXE.

But according to the thread I mentioned above, MDAC seems to be obsolete under Win7. While I use MC15 I still stick with WinXP, so I lack personal experience. Another thread even suggests a registry hack http://communities.ptc.com/message/160838#160838 to get MDAC 2.6 to install.

Release notes for MC14 are here: http://www.ptc.com/WCMS/files/98347/en/Mathcad_14_M035_RELNOTES.HTM

Systme Requirements are here: http://www.ptc.com/WCMS/files/98347/en/Mathcad_14_M035_RELNOTES.HTM#System_Requirements

M035 was the latest maintainance relase before PTC decided to release MC14 M040 as MC15 F001.

If you are entitled to uprade you would do better to stay with M030 as M035 has a bad memory leak problem making it necessary to kill the process in task manager after closing Mathcad.

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