How can I make Version 7 default in Windows 7?

Joerg schrieb:

I am not an OS expert and maybe it shows

 

Anyhow, because several clients of mine did not upgrade to V7 I must

also keep V6 on the computer. It rns Windows 7 64-bit Professional.

Any time I click on a *.sch file it opens it in V6. I cannot even

select in Windows to open in V7 because Eagle V7 doesn't show in the

menu.

 

So far the only way to open such files is to fire up V7, then go

through the file open menues and open the file. Of course, this does

not work with an Eagle file attached to an email which will always

open in V6.

 

What gives?

Hello Joerg,

welcome back here.

I vaguely remember having had about the same problem. In the selection

dialog for the "standard program", only "EAGLE" is shown - without any

version information, and so you can't tell which version to use. Even

worse, even if you explicitly select the path to a particular version,

windows will later still use the previous default.

AFAIK, the cause for this problem are the registry entries that EAGLE

creates during installation. The "program name" (or so) is set

identically for all versions of EAGLE, and windows just picks the first

match when setting the "standard", regardless of the (manually and

explicitly) given path.

I think I changed the values in the registry manually so they were

different... Not perfectly sure, however - it's been some time ago...

Good luck,

Tilmann

On 2016-12-15 01:07, Tilmann Reh wrote:

Joerg schrieb:

 

I am not an OS expert and maybe it shows

 

Anyhow, because several clients of mine did not upgrade to V7 I must

  also keep V6 on the computer. It rns Windows 7 64-bit Professional.

Any time I click on a *.sch file it opens it in V6. I cannot even

select in Windows to open in V7 because Eagle V7 doesn't show in the

menu.

 

So far the only way to open such files is to fire up V7, then go

through the file open menues and open the file. Of course, this does

not work with an Eagle file attached to an email which will always

open in V6.

 

What gives?

 

Hello Joerg,

 

welcome back here.

 

I vaguely remember having had about the same problem. In the selection

dialog for the "standard program", only "EAGLE" is shown - without any

version information, and so you can't tell which version to use. Even

worse, even if you explicitly select the path to a particular version,

windows will later still use the previous default.

 

That is exactly what happens.

AFAIK, the cause for this problem are the registry entries that EAGLE

creates during installation. The "program name" (or so) is set

identically for all versions of EAGLE, and windows just picks the first

match when setting the "standard", regardless of the (manually and

explicitly) given path.

 

I think I changed the values in the registry manually so they were

different... Not perfectly sure, however - it's been some time ago...

 

Registry edits are risk business, like walking close to the edge of a

cliff. Thanks for the hint. I'll tackle that next year, or try, when

there is time in case I need to unbrick the computer. Got a surprise

project that has to be done by end of December. However, since I still

have to wait for the specs I am going to brew beer today

--

Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/

On 17/12/2016 4:28 a.m., Joerg wrote:

On 2016-12-15 01:07, Tilmann Reh wrote:

 

I think I changed the values in the registry manually so they were

different... Not perfectly sure, however - it's been some time ago...

 

 

Registry edits are risk business, like walking close to the edge of a

cliff. Thanks for the hint. I'll tackle that next year, or try, when

there is time in case I need to unbrick the computer. Got a surprise

project that has to be done by end of December. However, since I still

have to wait for the specs I am going to brew beer today

 

These are the words you need:

In regedit:

Navigate to Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications and find your .exe

name. (eagle.exe)

Navigate under its name to shell>open>command. In the 'Default' change

its location to the actual location of the executable, is will look

similar to this :

"C:\Eagle7-7\bin\eagle.exe" "%1"

Hit okay.

You should not need to re-associate the file type but if you do you

should see the eagle icon has changed as they are different by Eagle

version.

The above works for me.

I have 5 versions of Eagle on my PC and I can change which version gets

used by default for the associated file types.

Warren

Am 16.12.2016 um 16:28 schrieb Joerg:

On 2016-12-15 01:07, Tilmann Reh wrote:

Joerg schrieb:

 

I am not an OS expert and maybe it shows

 

Anyhow, because several clients of mine did not upgrade to V7 I must

  also keep V6 on the computer. It rns Windows 7 64-bit Professional.

Any time I click on a *.sch file it opens it in V6. I cannot even

select in Windows to open in V7 because Eagle V7 doesn't show in the

menu.

 

So far the only way to open such files is to fire up V7, then go

through the file open menues and open the file. Of course, this does

not work with an Eagle file attached to an email which will always

open in V6.

 

What gives?

 

Hello Joerg,

 

welcome back here.

 

I vaguely remember having had about the same problem. In the selection

dialog for the "standard program", only "EAGLE" is shown - without any

version information, and so you can't tell which version to use. Even

worse, even if you explicitly select the path to a particular version,

windows will later still use the previous default.

 

 

That is exactly what happens.

 

 

AFAIK, the cause for this problem are the registry entries that EAGLE

creates during installation. The "program name" (or so) is set

identically for all versions of EAGLE, and windows just picks the first

match when setting the "standard", regardless of the (manually and

explicitly) given path.

 

I think I changed the values in the registry manually so they were

different... Not perfectly sure, however - it's been some time ago...

 

 

Registry edits are risk business, like walking close to the edge of a

cliff. Thanks for the hint. I'll tackle that next year, or try, when

there is time in case I need to unbrick the computer. Got a surprise

project that has to be done by end of December. However, since I still

have to wait for the specs I am going to brew beer today

 

Hi Joerg long time  no hear...

I too have clients who want modifications etc. in their "old" eagle

versions.

Generally I never install in the default partition (C:\) but into

different hd partitions.

On windows desktop I have the icons for the different versions of eagle

and each pointing to the corresponding path by using the "-U" parameter.

I didn't find it in "help" but finally found it in (version 5)

\doc\update_en-txt:

  - The new command line option '-U' can be used to define the location

     of the 'eaglerc' file in which EAGLE stores user settings.

Unfortunately  I didn't find much more about this parameter, but you can

also change the name of the eaglerc-file ie. "eaglerc-512.usr":

E:\EAGLE-5.12.0\bin\eagle.exe -U E:\Eagle-5.12.0\eaglerc-512.usr

This means that my eagle is on drive E:\eagle-5.12.0 and the

eaglerc(-512) file is in that directory too.

This goes for other versions as well. Of course the paths must be set in

the control panel too.

It worked for me in all windows OS and now in win 8.1.

--

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / With best regards

Joern Paschedag

Am 16.12.2016 um 19:33 schrieb warrenbrayshaw:

On 17/12/2016 4:28 a.m., Joerg wrote:

On 2016-12-15 01:07, Tilmann Reh wrote:

 

I think I changed the values in the registry manually so they were

different... Not perfectly sure, however - it's been some time ago...

 

 

Registry edits are risk business, like walking close to the edge of a

cliff. Thanks for the hint. I'll tackle that next year, or try, when

there is time in case I need to unbrick the computer. Got a surprise

project that has to be done by end of December. However, since I still

have to wait for the specs I am going to brew beer today

 

 

These are the words you need:

 

In regedit:

Navigate to Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications and find your .exe

name. (eagle.exe)

 

Navigate under its name to shell>open>command. In the 'Default' change

its location to the actual location of the executable, is will look

similar to this :

"C:\Eagle7-7\bin\eagle.exe" "%1"

 

Hit okay.

 

You should not need to re-associate the file type but if you do you

should see the eagle icon has changed as they are different by Eagle

version.

 

The above works for me.

I have 5 versions of Eagle on my PC and I can change which version gets

used by default for the associated file types.

 

Warren

 

Hi Warren,

I also have different versions of eagle installed because of some

clients. No problem so far

But in the license agreement 1.2.1 of autodesk it reads that after an

upgrade

the "old" versions have to be uninstalled within 120 days after upgrade...

This is not acceptable for me and so I shall not upgrade to Version 7.

Or have I over read something?

--

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / With best regards

Joern Paschedag

Hi Joern!

Am 17.12.2016 um 12:04 schrieb Joern Paschedag:

But in the license agreement 1.2.1 of autodesk it reads that after an

upgrade

the "old" versions have to be uninstalled within 120 days after upgrade...

With V6, you even had to replace previous versions immediately. But

these 120 days made me curious, so I looked for the current EULA ... and

could not find it. So where did you find that information?

Rene

Am 17.12.2016 um 11:41 schrieb Joern Paschedag:

Am 16.12.2016 um 16:28 schrieb Joerg:

On 2016-12-15 01:07, Tilmann Reh wrote:

Joerg schrieb:

 

I am not an OS expert and maybe it shows

 

Anyhow, because several clients of mine did not upgrade to V7 I must

  also keep V6 on the computer. It rns Windows 7 64-bit Professional.

Any time I click on a *.sch file it opens it in V6. I cannot even

select in Windows to open in V7 because Eagle V7 doesn't show in the

menu.

 

So far the only way to open such files is to fire up V7, then go

through the file open menues and open the file. Of course, this does

not work with an Eagle file attached to an email which will always

open in V6.

 

What gives?

 

Hello Joerg,

 

welcome back here.

 

I vaguely remember having had about the same problem. In the selection

dialog for the "standard program", only "EAGLE" is shown - without any

version information, and so you can't tell which version to use. Even

worse, even if you explicitly select the path to a particular version,

windows will later still use the previous default.

 

 

That is exactly what happens.

 

 

AFAIK, the cause for this problem are the registry entries that EAGLE

creates during installation. The "program name" (or so) is set

identically for all versions of EAGLE, and windows just picks the first

match when setting the "standard", regardless of the (manually and

explicitly) given path.

 

I think I changed the values in the registry manually so they were

different... Not perfectly sure, however - it's been some time ago...

 

 

Registry edits are risk business, like walking close to the edge of a

cliff. Thanks for the hint. I'll tackle that next year, or try, when

there is time in case I need to unbrick the computer. Got a surprise

project that has to be done by end of December. However, since I still

have to wait for the specs I am going to brew beer today

 

 

Hi Joerg long time  no hear...

 

I too have clients who want modifications etc. in their "old" eagle

versions.

Generally I never install in the default partition (C:\) but into

different hd partitions.

 

On windows desktop I have the icons for the different versions of eagle

and each pointing to the corresponding path by using the "-U" parameter.

I didn't find it in "help" but finally found it in (version 5)

\doc\update_en-txt:

 

  - The new command line option '-U' can be used to define the location

     of the 'eaglerc' file in which EAGLE stores user settings.

 

Unfortunately  I didn't find much more about this parameter, but you can

also change the name of the eaglerc-file ie. "eaglerc-512.usr":

 

E:\EAGLE-5.12.0\bin\eagle.exe -U E:\Eagle-5.12.0\eaglerc-512.usr

 

This means that my eagle is on drive E:\eagle-5.12.0 and the

eaglerc(-512) file is in that directory too.

This goes for other versions as well. Of course the paths must be set in

the control panel too.

It worked for me in all windows OS and now in win 8.1.

 

 

Me too. Sometimes I also test in another language, then I use a

batch file like this:

Eagle_7.X_EN.bat

-

SET LANG=en_US

"d:\Programme ohne Instalation\eagle-win64-7.7.0\bin\eagle.exe"

-U"d:\Programme ohne Instalation\eagle-win64-7.7.0\eaglerc_770.usr"

-

Freundliche Grüße / Kind regards

Friedrich

-

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Am 17.12.2016 um 13:00 schrieb Friedrich Bleikamp:

-

SET LANG=en_US

"d:\Programme ohne Instalation\eagle-win64-7.7.0\bin\eagle.exe"

-U"d:\Programme ohne Instalation\eagle-win64-7.7.0\eaglerc_770.usr"

---------------------------

This keeps a console window open. I'd start EAGLE through "start", for

example:

SET LANG=en_US

START "d:\Programme ohne Instalation\eagle-win64-7.7.0\bin\eagle.exe"

-U"d:\Programme ohne Instalation\eagle-win64-7.7.0\eaglerc_770.usr"

Rene

Am 17.12.2016 um 13:00 schrieb Friedrich Bleikamp:

-

SET LANG=en_US

"d:\Programme ohne Instalation\eagle-win64-7.7.0\bin\eagle.exe"

-U"d:\Programme ohne Instalation\eagle-win64-7.7.0\eaglerc_770.usr"

---------------------------

This keeps a console window open. I'd start EAGLE through "start", for

example:

SET LANG=en_US

START "d:\Programme ohne Instalation\eagle-win64-7.7.0\bin\eagle.exe"

-U"d:\Programme ohne Instalation\eagle-win64-7.7.0\eaglerc_770.usr"

Rene

Am 17.12.2016 um 13:44 schrieb René König:

 

This keeps a console window open. I'd start EAGLE through "start", for

example:

 

SET LANG=en_US

START "d:\Programme ohne Instalation\eagle-win64-7.7.0\bin\eagle.exe"

-U"d:\Programme ohne Instalation\eagle-win64-7.7.0\eaglerc_770.usr"

 

Rene

 

Hi Rene,

this does not work if there are spaces in the path. Then the

first parameter of "START" must be specified (window title) and

the paths in quotes.

-

SET LANG=en_US

START "" "d:\Programme ohne

Instalation\eagle-win64-7.7.0\bin\eagle.exe" -U"d:\Programme

ohne Instalation\eagle-win64-7.7.0\eaglerc_770.usr"

-

Freundliche Grüße / Kind regards

Friedrich

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