Chances are you've Googled one of my many posts in the past. I am one of those people you are referring to that spends the time searching, learning and sharing what I know with people like yourself and many others who end up here from Google searches and wherever else. I've been around here for quite a bit now.
RSLOGIX 500 PORTABLE UPDATE
You've misunderstood my intentions here but remember, I spent my time earlier to advise you and again here to update you and not to be smart. So I apologize for the "look at me." I did this for myself and my team and figured I'd share these findings with everyone. If I have an issue I check Google first which 99% of the time takes me here where others like me have taken the time to figure out a working solution. Not all of us have time to sort through AB's knowledge base. Good learning experience though as this is the hand Rockwell has handed us.
RSLOGIX 500 PORTABLE WINDOWS 10
I will also be trying this very soon on a Windows 10 Ent physical box just to verify there's no difference between VM and physical. It may take a week or so but if anyone is interested and no one is upset by this post, I'll try it on my Windows 10 Pro box and report back. However my company would use enterprise on a physical box so I believe this to be an apples to apples comparison. I did a run as admin and it added the files just fine, did a few reboots to verify, and even moved them back without loosing anything. On a small side note I did do an evmovecf from my USB drive to the C drive on windows 10 and that DID work. That's not my choosing, that is what the company has provided me. Now to go further since I hate anything sticking out of my machine, adding a second hard drive to the VM and moving the keys there does the same thing!!! Windows 10 with a small secondary hard drive with the keys installed on it works! And this is great news since our IT department will force us to use Windows 10 in the near future and our current version of Logix 5 is 5.20. So just to repeat that with reboots to verify, Logix 500 will work just fine with the USB plugged in.
RSLOGIX 500 PORTABLE FOR WINDOWS 10
What is ground breaking news to me is that and I can't believe I've never tried this before, I found out that just by having the USB key plugged in Logix 500 WILL see the keys and run just fine! So for Windows 10 just having a USB key with the master disk on it will allow legacy software to run! Having moved my purchased keys from a floppy to hd then to USB, I have made them portable. So with Logix 500 or 5 at ver 7.x and below you can use the master disk.
It's an Enterprise VM which is only good for 90 days but allows me to try software on Windows 10 with dying a million deaths on a physical box. So I have a Windows 10 VM that I got from MS. With that said, and this is the truth, all software and keys I have, have been purchased by my company through Rockwell. This is in no way hacking or doing anything wrong, but let's face it, in order to get legacy Rockwell software to work sometimes we have to think outside the box. So I just wanted to update everyone on my findings.įirst off like others have mentioned if I'm saying something wrong please let me know.
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