We have 2 pc's with X7 loaded. System #1 has worked flawlessly for years but is still running on windows 7. If I save the fully customized workspace for use on System #2 running windows 10 the system crashing constantly for the simplest of tasks. Change it back to the default and all is good. Could it be that by saving from a win7 pc it makes it incompatible with win10. The way I see it now we're going to have to go through and manually customize system 2's workspace. Probably over 30 different macros and custom icons, as well as, assigned shortcut keys.
Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
p.s. even tried running win10 system in compatibility mode but didn't make a difference
David Milisock said:What you and many others do is a problem for Corel, if you customize extensively the time savings and the cost in time to rebuild are considerable considerations, so users stay with an older version.
Its one consideration but my primary motivation for staying with 2018 is
So we ditched trying to use the saved workspace from the win7 pc. We created two directories, 1 in C:/....user/app data/.... etc. and moved everything out of the that gms file to the newly created directory. The other is in the program directory where that gms file is usually kept. Also moved all from that gms folder. Corel program now starts a lot faster but still has a delay in some of the most simple tasks. We're now slowly adding back in the most crucial macros, as well as, customizing the workspace i.e. deleting icons, setting default colors etc. System is a lot more stable but still "lags" compared to my win7 pc. The win10 pc is supposed to be more robust.
Uh....this just in from my pc tech. My win7 pc uses all SSD drives. The win10 pc has it's operating system on a non ssd but has a secondary ssd installed. All or files are kept on a network and we typically work directly from there. On rare occasions, although much more often by my coworker, do we copy a file to the desktop and work from there. That's usually on very large files.
Your reasoning is another issue not only for Corel but others. Depending on what you produce you can really get by with X5 , X7, Inkscape or Affinity Designer. I know users still running Adobe CS 5. The *** is maintaining computer systems that can run the old applications.
A friend runs pretty much a limited sign shop, she can get away with Designer for 80% of her work, if it handled heavier loads better she wouldn't need anything else. However a 5 foot x 8 foot menu print with a few drop shadows chokes it big time even on it systems with 64GB of RAM.
I have gotten plenty out of 2021 and 2022 especially 2022. Tracing is not reducing bitmap sizes any longer, clones are not needed as symbols replaces it, as far as I know, some nondestructive effects are no longer limited to low resolution. The image editing enhancements of the adjustment docker have improved my efficiency at least 30%.
As I see it Corel needs in the future to streamline features, as an example there are at least 4 ways to crop and image, 5 if you're inventive. Train people how you want the program to be used then make sure those processes work 100%, then eliminate excessive programming. There are at least a dozen features like that. They could save hundreds of programming hours.
Wow they skimped on the OS drive, there's a slow down. Did they turn off all the power saving BS?
The other big feature that about 2% of our (only the ahole) clients want is a dimensional perspective look. We can adapt a true manufacturing mock up quickly.