ProDesktop 8, Windows 7, extrusion problems.

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December 6, 2011
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We have moved the school from Windows XP to Windows 7 recently and now have a problem when trying to extrude. I should add that I support the IT in this school, and am not an expert in ProDesktop. I have tried a couple of options suggested on the forums here, (right-click, Run as Administrator, which the pupils can't do by the way, and disable graphics hardware acceleration) but neither of them work. I appreciate that ProDesktop 8 is an old program, though a well-used one, but i would appreciate any help the community could offer me.

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Having done some more searching on the web I've come across a solution which appears to work for us.

I had to login to a machine as admin, run ProDesktop, disable graphics hardware acceleration, Open a New Design, create an extrusion, then close the program without saving. Log off as admin and log on as a pupil. The program then appears to run as intended.

It may be that somewhere along the line something else goes awry, but for the moment our D & T Faculty are happy. With the aid of two of the teaching faculty we were able to sort out a couple of IT suites in less than a half hour, which was quicker than preparing a new image and pushing it out to 60 machines.