Error KB3072630 when trying to install Solidworks 2013 SP2 on Windows 10

Ryan Hochstrasser wrote:

 

I'm trying to find out if SW works well on the new Surface Book.

What version of SolidWorks?

Sam,

I suggest you not try Windows 10 with SW2014 - your just asking for trouble.

Jorn Bjarning may have just gotten lucky with his hardware and his software settings, and he has not updated this post for almost a year!

- by now his system / software may have crashed and burned and he may have had to bite the bullet and upgrade.

I built up a new computer recently and specified that I wanted it to use Windows 7.

The system I got had the option and many companies offer to install either one.

Most businesses will not use Windows 10 after the problems with Windows 8, 8.1.

Windows 7 is very stable and will work with SW 2014-2017 without the problems you could face with 2014 on Windows10.

What would you do if you could not get SW2014 to work on Windows 10? - You would have to downgrade Windows or upgrade SW $$$$$$

Hi Sam,

SW2014 is running very fine in my Windows 10 environment :-). I haven't had any problems worth mentioning and I didn't come across any functions not working like intended. For me it has worked just as fine in Windows 10 as it did in Windows 7. No complaints at all!

I haven't heard of anyone reporting real problems with this combination. I am not saying there isn't but I didn't experience any and I didn't hear about others having trouble apart for the issue with KB3072630. But again, there are many corners of the software package I never use (Simulation for example) and of course I can't say that everything is working like it should.

SOLIDWORKS Corp. does not support SW 2014 on Windows 10 simply because last service pack for SW 2014 was released before Windows 10. SOLIDWORKS can and will not support older versions of their software for newer platforms. It makes good sense to me. If you go ahead with SW 2014 on Windows 10 (which I think you should) you just have be prepared for issues and know that SOLIDWORKS and your VAR can/will not help you.

Where I come companies have long been implementing Windows 10 and are very satisfied with it. Personally I am very happy with it.

A note on Microsoft Office: SW uses Microsoft Office functionality - for example when working with Design Tables. For a short period I worked with Office 2016 on the new Windows 10 laptop I got a year ago but I experienced problems when working with Design Tables so I downgraded Office to version 2013 and the problems disappeared.

Regards,

Jorn