Upgrading to XP

[joe.n]

I have been informed by our IT department that we are looking to upgrade our operating system from the current Windows 2000 to Windows XP. Last fall we upgraded AutoCad from 2004 to ADT 2005 and I suspect we will be staying with that for a while.

My question . . . are there any "issues" that I should be aware with regarding this upgrade from a cad standpoint? I would like to make the "higher up" aware of any glitches that may affect either productivity or cad support.

Thanx,
Joseph Navin
Excel Engineering

[Glenn Pope]

You shouldn't have any problems as long as everything is a nice clean install.

[Ed Jobe]

Just make sure that cad users belong to the Power Users group.

[joe.n]

Ed,

Excuse the dumb question . . .

What do you mean by Power Users Group? Is this an actual users group or just a loose term to define the serious cad users?

Joe

[Wanderer]

Ed,

Excuse the dumb question . . .

What do you mean by Power Users Group? Is this an actual users group or just a loose term to define the serious cad users?

Joe

It's a classification within windows that sets certain rights for users.
look under your control panel > user accounts and you can see the options in there. You'll see the user accounts on the pc: the user name, the domain and their group (user, power user or administrator).

good luck with your upgrade.

[Ed Jobe]

Thanks Melanie.
Your IT guy would probably do this anyway, but I would seriously reccommend rebuilding the pc and installing XP fresh, as opposed to "upgrading". Its more work, but well worth it as far as stability goes.

[joe.n]

Thanx for the input so far.

I spoke with our IT guy right before lunch and he said that this will be happening in the next couple of weeks so I am going to come back next week and see if there are any additional comments. He also mentioned that we will be running Winsdows XP Professional, service pack 2 (if that matters) and that we will be receiving new pcs so it should be a fresh install.

Thanx, again

[robert.1.hall72202]

I remember there being some sort of issue between Windows XP Service Pack 2 and AutoCad. I would suggest making sure you have all the most current AutoCad patches.

[Glenn Pope]

I remember there being some sort of issue between Windows XP Service Pack 2 and AutoCad. I would suggest making sure you have all the most current AutoCad patches.

The only issue I know of was the Windows firewall blocking the communication center from contacting the Autodesk server. If you don't use the firewall you shouldn't have a problem.

[Mike.Perry]

Just make sure that cad users belong to the Power Users group.

Hi

I believe that is only a requirement for AutoCAD 2002 users or below...

ID: TS70312 - Permissions required to run on Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional

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Below quotes come directly from AutoCAD 2004 reviews...

Support for installation without power user rights.

Operating Systems: AutoCAD 2004 is now Windows XP certified, and runs fine on Windows 2000 as well. Power user privileges are no longer required. Operating systems such as Windows 95/98/Me are not supported. In our opinion these operating systems were never stable enough to be considered for AutoCAD anyway.

Have a good one, Mike