Singer PSW 1.1 Will it run on Vista?

If you haven't yet tried to install it, how do you know it needs a fix?

There is/was a problem even running 1.1 in XP, for which a free patch is available.

Just go ahead and install it. If it doesn't work, try to obtain the XP patch. After that, you may still have to run it in XP or 9x compatibility mode.

- Herb

------------------------------------- Thanks for your reply. Yup, I have Singer's support site for PSW bookmarked; I have the fixes for XP downloaded and ready to go. Tomorrow I will load up PSW, install the fixes and see what happens.

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I bought a new laptop (and paid a "downgrade" fee for XP Pro!) to use with my Singer Quantum XL5000. However, I had problems getting the USB-to-serial adaptor to transmit designs to the embroidery machine. It's weird because I can open the PSW "Conversion Tool" software, and it finds the embroidery machine just fine with all the identical port settings. But it's a pain to create a design, save it in PSW, close PSW, and open Conversion Tool EVERY TIME in order to send designs to the XL5000. I finally have resurrected an older computer (also running XP Pro) which has a serial port for the PSW dongle and it works perfectly. So I've retired the laptop to be my backup DVD recorder.

You have nothing to lose by doing a test install and seeing if it works. If it doesn't, partition your harddrive, install XP on a bootable parititon, and run PSW from there.

I don't have PSW 1.0 (I have PSW 2.0a). Does it use a dongle? If so, you may have to find a USB adaptor for the cables, none of the newer computers have serial ports AFAIK. I did find USB-to-serial adaptors for my newer laptop, but it was a less than perfect work-around.

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