Proprietary software – Henry Poon's Blog https://blog.henrypoon.com Mon, 12 May 2025 07:00:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 83044199 Tortoise SVN freezes when trying to lock/add/commit changes of SolidWorks files https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2012/02/18/tortoise-svn-freezes-when-trying-to-lockaddcommit-changes-of-solidworks-files/ https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2012/02/18/tortoise-svn-freezes-when-trying-to-lockaddcommit-changes-of-solidworks-files/#comments Sun, 19 Feb 2012 03:22:37 +0000 http://henrypoon.mooo.com/blog/tortoise-svn-freezes-when-trying-to-lockaddcommit-changes-of-solidworks-files Tortoise SVN sometimes freezes when SolidWorks files get changed when the user tries to lock/add/commit files.  This is caused by the sldShellExtServer.exe process conflicting with Tortoise.  Disabling the shell extensions that SolidWorks installs on the computer removes the conflict so that SVN can work properly.

The Fix

The fix involves disabling the shell extensions, so disabling them is not recommended if the user makes use of these features.

  1. Download ShellExView from http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html
  2. Disable the following items:
    • SLDASMIcons Class
    • SLDDEWIcons Class
    • SLDPRTIcons Class
    • SldShellExtension Class
    • Solidworks Document Thumbnail Handler
    • SolidWorks file Info Tips Class
    • SolidWorks file Preview Class

Once these items are disabled, SVN should work properly.

]]> https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2012/02/18/tortoise-svn-freezes-when-trying-to-lockaddcommit-changes-of-solidworks-files/feed/ 16 1323 2010 in Review https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2011/01/02/2010-in-review/ https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2011/01/02/2010-in-review/#respond Sun, 02 Jan 2011 10:30:19 +0000 http://henrypoon.mooo.com/blog/2010-in-review The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

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The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is on fire!.

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A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 6,600 times in 2010. That’s about 16 full 747s.

In 2010, there were 85 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 120 posts. There were 48 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 3mb. That’s about 4 pictures per month.

The busiest day of the year was November 23rd with 83 views. The most popular post that day was South Korea: Yet Again Swallowing the Bitter Pill.

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Attractions in 2010

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South Korea: Yet Again Swallowing the Bitter Pill November 2010
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Connecting a Sony Ericsson P1i to a Windows 7 x64 Computer in Phone Mode December 2009
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Snow Leopard on a Dell Inspiron 1520 June 2010
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How to Install Solidworks 2008 on a x64 Operating System November 2009

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SolidWorks 2010 Side-By-Side Configuration Error Fix August 2010
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Apparently, the problem was that Adobe Acrobat didn’t have a default scanner set.  I would think the program would have known to use my default scanner device (really just my all-in-one printer), but it never set it.  To enable the scanner:

  1. Click the “Create” button and click “Configure Presets”
  2. Under the dropdown for the scanning device, choose your scanner
  3. Scan away!

This method worked for me seeing that my scanner was already configured except for this little bit here.  If the correct scanner doesn’t show up the list, then it probably wasn’t properly configured to begin with.  In that case, it will take a bit of extra work for scanning to completely work.

]]> https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2010/10/29/adobe-acrobat-giving-the-bad-parameter-error/feed/ 0 434 SolidWorks Side-By-Side Configuration Error Fix https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2010/08/07/solidworks-2010-side-by-side-configuration-error-fix/ https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2010/08/07/solidworks-2010-side-by-side-configuration-error-fix/#comments Sun, 08 Aug 2010 01:57:03 +0000 http://henrypoon.mooo.com/blog/solidworks-2010-side-by-side-configuration-error-fix I finally found the fix to the error in SolidWorks 2010 (also reported to work for SW 2011, 2015 and 2016) that prevented me from running the program.  The computer uses Windows 7 32-bit (works also for Windows 8 and 10 as pointed out in the comments), and every time I started up the program it would something like:

The application failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect.  Please see the application event log or use the command-line sxstrace.exe tool.

I used my Google-fu and found that the cause of this error is due my computer not having the Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable.  A copy of the setup file for this is in the SolidWorks 2010 disc.  It is in the folder (DVD Drive):PreReqsVCRedist.  After installing that, the error disappeared and SolidWorks starts properly.

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Update (Dec 8, 2009): I know that there is a copy of Solidworks 2008 that was released for 64 bit operating systems, but this article is talking purely about getting the 32 bit copy to work.

INSTALLING SOLIDWORKS

  1. Download and Install Orca MSI Editor.
    • link: http://www.technipages.com/download-orca-msi-editor.html
    • its use should be very straight forward
  2. Open English_i386_Solidworks.MSI inside the Solidworks set up files.  It should be in “Solidworks 2008 Office Premium SP 3.0 w COSMOS\swwi\data”
  3. Under “LaunchCondition”, change the “Not” to an “Or” in the line that has a description saying “x64 operating systems are incompatible/not supported”
  4. Disable any anti-virus programs
    • I’ve never had an anti-virus program cause any problems until now.  I had Bitdefender 2010 on my computer and it caused the installation to hang.
  5. Install Solidworks and apply the updates
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