Looks like we will need to upgrade our PfE host on the probe to Win10 soon, so we are interested to see if there are any known problems. Has anyone done this recently?
Hi Mike,
I think Ben Buse at Bristol is running PFE under Win10. I know Gareth is running PFE under Win8 (there is no Win9!).
There was a problem with the old graphics library calls during the peaking and PHA acquisitions under Win8 and even for "locked down" versions of Win7, but now that I've replaced those calls (and I might even be done with replacing the remaining calls this weekend!), it seems to be running fine.
If it were me I would get a new computer with Win10 Professional on it, install CalcZAF and PFE, copy over my old config files from the ProgramData folder and see if it runs under demo mode (InterfaceType = 0), and if it all looks good, just swap the computers.
The only hardware issue is moving the CAT5 cable from the old computer to the new computer. Remember, you'll want two network cards in the new computer: one for the WWW and one for the instrument private network which has to be statically defined based on the IP address in the Probewin.INI file.