Hello. I have a new pc running Win7. I'm using RS500, 5000, PBuilder, FTVME, RSLinx for Dnet. All these run ok, but when started -via shortcut- rslinx classic gives the tiniest blip on the hard drive light and doesn't run. It's a recent install (this month) when I migrated the others across. I have tried compatibility mode; no change. A look at it in explorer shows 147 files and 8 folders (does this sound right?) It won't run from explorer either. Any ideas appreciated, thanks.
RSLinx all there but won't run
- Thread starter DairyBoy
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Mickey
Lifetime Supporting Member
That sound like RSLinx is running, as a service. You can stop that by going to launch control
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Mickey
Lifetime Supporting Member
Mickey
Lifetime Supporting Member
No, you can if you want. But if you don't know it's running you will get the results DairyBoy did.
The only place I let it run as a service is on a SCADA machine. For a programming PC/Laptop I don't want it starting and taking over
a port that I may want to use with other software.
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Kev77
Member
I sure hope they fix this in later versions. I have a server with FTView SE, transaction manager and SQL. It sucks to need to go and uncheck the when I need to see topics and open up RS Who. I was running this on a server 2008.
dmroeder
Lifetime Supporting Member
LOL! You're so funny!
You ever tried adding the driver for PCMK and accidentally selected PKTX when configuring it? Blues-screen city and the only way out of it is to reinstall or boot into safe mode and remove it. This has been around for years.
I always turn off "run as service" because this is required for using the PIC driver (even though I don't use it anymore).
Kev77
Member
One of the guys that I work with had the blue screen and reloaded windows. When I told him about safe mode fix he was less then thrilled. It must be a hard thing for Rockwell to fix. Thank god I have tech support or I would be lost trying to figure out software flaws!
jstolaruk
Lifetime Supporting Member
To properly install RSlinx, you must have all admin privileges including those of a domain administrator (assuming the laptop resides on a Microsoft domain when logging in). So you may need your IT manager to install RSLinx. Then disable it running as a service. Now, it will run properly w/o the domain admin privileges. I ran into this just a couple of days ago.
Yeah Thats right. Cant remember how many times i had to struggle to setup serial communication only to find my rslinx was using it
scifiwasabi
Member
you rock mickey 
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