10 Replies Latest reply on Jul 30, 2010 11:01 AM by Steve Calvert

How to stop multiple instances of SWX from opening?

1-7Z0296 Jul 29, 2010 1:16 PM

SWX 2010 on Windows 7 32x. I open SWX and launch a file. Then with SWX running, I double-click another SWX file and it starts another instances of SWX. How to do I stop SWX from opening multiple instances?

Thank you

Re: How to stop multiple instances of SWX from opening?

David Suelflow Jul 29, 2010 1:18 PM (in response to 1-7Z0296)

Open the files through the program and not through windows explorer (if that is what you are doing).
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  1-7Z0296 Jul 29, 2010 1:24 PM (in response to David Suelflow)
  
  I guess I should have been more specific. I cannot recreate this behavior on Win 7 x64 or on XP workstations. Right now it is only happened to one user and he is on Win 7 x32. He's already been advised to use File > Open, but old habits die hard. I was hoping there was a setting to control this, but could not find it in the Help files.
  
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    David Suelflow Jul 29, 2010 1:29 PM (in response to 1-7Z0296)
    
    None that I know of… there are several "switches" I'd like to see added.
    
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Re: How to stop multiple instances of SWX from opening?

Wayne Tiffany Jul 29, 2010 7:24 PM (in response to 1-7Z0296)

I have not seen that happen on anything here so I'm going to say that something is not right. But I have also not had SW loaded on Win 7 yet either so I don't ahve a good answer for you.

WT
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Re: How to stop multiple instances of SWX from opening?

Jeff Mowry Jul 29, 2010 8:06 PM (in response to 1-7Z0296)

I'm on Windows 7, x64 and that happens to me all the time with a non-native format of SolidWorks. The last couple of days it's plagued me when opening parasolid formats. It's not a file association thing, since Windows knows to open the file in SolidWorks. But older versions (with XP) used to be smart enough to open within the already-opened application--not so with my present machine and installation.
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  Kelvin Lamport Jul 29, 2010 10:08 PM (in response to Jeff Mowry)
  
  I've read of that happening when multiple versions of SW are installed.
  
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    Jeff Mowry Jul 29, 2010 10:51 PM (in response to Kelvin Lamport)
    
    I've got v2009 and v2010 installed. But I like 2010 (features, stability) more than v2009 on this system--would be nice to move to only one. I believe I've got some gremlins in the system now with v2009--a few odd things once in a while.
    
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    Steve Calvert Jul 30, 2010 10:35 AM (in response to Kelvin Lamport)
    
    I have SW2006 and SW2010 loaded and sometimes when I have SW2006 opened and I double click a file in my work directory it'll open SW2010.
    
    Steve
    
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      Jeff Mowry Jul 30, 2010 10:36 AM (in response to Steve Calvert)
      
      Whoa--that's dangerous. If you didn't notice the future version open, you could lose your files from v2006 forever!
      
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        Steve Calvert Jul 30, 2010 11:01 AM (in response to Jeff Mowry)
        
        LOL (damn, I thought I'd never use that) I did think about doing that and pleading igorance. Rats, we have to upgrade to SW2010 now
        
        Steve
        
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