Corel DRAW x5 and Windows 10

I have problem with corel Drawx5 and corel PHOTO-PAINT x5. I had upgraded to windows 10 and now menu bar is white with white text. I can see menu positions only when I hover them witch cursor. Problem is only with main menu, when i open it all sub-menu items appear correctly.

Stefan Lindblad over 9 years ago

Hi,
X5 version was not made optimized for use with Win 8 & 8.1. It was optimized for win 7, XP. So unfortunately X5 will never be working 100% with Windows 10.

Instead you should update/upgrade your X5 to X7. If you intend to use win 10.
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Gaashak over 9 years ago in reply to Stefan Lindblad

Great answer, buy new. I got classroom with 15 computers all running windows 7 and Corel x5. Microsoft gives me option to upgrade to new OS for free but only answer from Corel I get is buy new product, same answer I got from official support.
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RoyReed over 9 years ago in reply to Gaashak

Whilst I understand your frustration, it's not really Corel's fault that a programme they made several years ago doesn't work 100% on an OS that wasn't even thought about then. You could always wind back your OS to whatever it was before the upgrade to Win 10.
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Stefan Lindblad over 9 years ago in reply to Gaashak

I am not a Corel employee. I am a freelancing illustrator and graphic designer. If you instead read my entire answer, then you get the answer. So please read again. When X5 was released windows 7 was the latest operating system. Windows 8 was not even developed at that time. Since X5 both X6 & X7 have been released. It means basically that your X5 version is maybe 6 years old.

Again I am not a Corel employee
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Stefan Lindblad over 9 years ago in reply to Gaashak

I understand your frustration. But unfortunately this is what happens with old programs and new OS is introduced. My girlfriend life partner has Adobe creative suite 4 she bought in Swede for 20 000 Swedish crowns. Yea Double the price of what Americans pay. And then windows 8 was released and she was forced to buy a computer with o ly win 7 from Dell. And she coulruse her Adobe PhotoShop indesign and illustrator on her new laptop. So she need to keep her old hog of desktop with wi does 7. When trying to downgrade her win 8 to win 7 on her laptop, all computer hell broke out. She had to have it replaced by Dell. Within warrenty. Anyway its what it is. Frustrating yes, but now both myself in Sweden and Roy in the UK - not Corel employees have tries to help you with our answers. A thank you wouldn't be bad. Have a great day
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