Leica software on Vista

[Ben Troutwine]

I tried to install the Leica LCS Lite viewer on my Vista laptop but it tells me i have to use XP or something older.  Does anyone know if there is a newer version that is Vista compatible or if there is some way to run vista in compatiblity mode for this software?
Thanks,
Ben

[Craig Brideau]

Vista has all but been abandoned by microsoft at this point in favor of Windows 7, so I wouldn't hold my breath on this one.  You can still get OEM copies of XP; install one of those on your machine and go with it until Win7 is available.

Craig

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Ben Troutwine <[hidden email]> wrote:

I tried to install the Leica LCS Lite viewer on my Vista laptop but it tells me i have to use XP or something older.  Does anyone know if there is a newer version that is Vista compatible or if there is some way to run vista in compatiblity mode for this software?
Thanks,
Ben

[JOEL B. SHEFFIELD]

Depending on the information that you need to work with, you can do
most of the Leica Lite operations with ImageJ, as long as you also
have the latest version of the LOCI file importer plugins.

ImageJ will work on Vista.

Joel




>
> I tried to install the Leica LCS Lite viewer on my Vista laptop but
> it tells me i have to use XP or something older. Does anyone know if
> there is a newer version that is Vista compatible or if there is some
> way to run vista in compatiblity mode for this software?
> Thanks,
> Ben
>


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[Cameron Nowell]

Hi Ben,

           I have LAS Lite (the newer version for the SP5) running on windows vista premium. It might be able to open your data, so it might be worth geting a copy of it.

 

 

Cheers

 

 

Cam

 

 

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Subject: Leica software on Vista

I tried to install the Leica LCS Lite viewer on my Vista laptop but it tells me i have to use XP or something older.  Does anyone know if there is a newer version that is Vista compatible or if there is some way to run vista in compatiblity mode for this software?
Thanks,
Ben

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[Torsten.Fregin]

Hi,

I have a PC with Win7 Beta (64 bit version) installed, and tried to install Leica LCS Lite (build
1538). (I never worked with Vista, because I did not see the benefits... In the meantime, I
hoped for better Linux hardware driver support, but it is still a pain in the...)

Results:

Normal call of the LeicaLCSlt.exe will just prompt me to "You need Windows XP or NT to
install...".

Then I tried to install LCS in the compatibility mode for XP - (right click on the installer, select
"Program compatibility issues", select "worked with earlier versions of windows", select XP),
and the installation seemed to work normally. I then restarted the computer, and when I tried
to open LCS I got the error message "LCS - The DataContainer could not be initialized! ...
DC error code: 1000"
I then went to the program folder of LCS and right-clicked onto the .exe- files (in the bin folder
and the DataContainer folders, 3 files total), called the "program compatibility" setup, told
Win7 to work like XP. Then I called LCS, and it started. Looks as if the boys at MS did their
homework in the end...
I don't have time to do in-depth-testing. Probably it is better to install the program either on a
real XP, or install a virtual environment like "VirtualBox" and use XP on the Vista machine.
On modern PCs with dual core cpus I see no performance difference. But it just works with
software, not with hardware drivers...




;-) Torsten








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On 3 Feb 2009 at 13:44, Ben Troutwine wrote:

I tried to install the Leica LCS Lite viewer on my Vista laptop but it tells me i have to use XP
or something older. Does anyone know if there is a newer version that is Vista compatible or
if there is some way to run vista in compatiblity mode for this software?
Thanks,
Ben