[Bldg-sim] windows Vista and modeling programs

David Bradley bradley at tess-inc.com
Wed Apr 23 06:47:20 PDT 2008


Karen,
 We haven't run into any incompatibilities between TRNSYS and Windows 
Vista. The one annoyance with it is that Vista's security is very 
restrictive about what users and what programs can write in the \Program 
Files\ directory. As far as I have been able to tell only users with 
administrator privileges can write in that directory. If TRNSYS is 
installed in \Program Files then whoever is using it needs to have admin 
rights so that TRNSYS can write all of its log, list, and output files 
there. I don't think that this issue is specific to TRNSYS, I imagine 
that it will crop up with anything that is designed to be fully 
contained in a single directory that is installed in \Program Files.
Cheers,
 David


Karen Walkerman wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm considering purchasing a new computer and want to check if anyone 
> knows of energy simulation program complications with Windows Vista. 
>  I regularly use eQuest, Contam, Therm5, and Window5.  I will probably 
> be using Trnsys more in the future.
>
> Thanks!
>
> ~Karen~
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