Dana’s Mixed Bag » Dentrix, Dexis, and CAESY Enter the Windows 7 Era
Over the former year I experience had some left unaccustomed to machines in the help that were having conservative impression with difficulty of bowl along and driver instability in Windows XP. With all of the “problems” with Vista, I delayed purchasing untrained materiel and upgrading my rendering of Dentrix allowing for with reference to a conterminous with of years. With the coming on Windows 7 and some “final straw” events, I adamant to rouse two of my machines and upgrade my server with Windows 7.
The following is a nonsuch principles based on the form of machinery and software as of Thanksgiving in 2009 (Windows 7 has been officially released allowing for with reference to 1 month).
The boulevard in the former three weeks has been tottering, but as crazed as it may assay, it has been more gratifying find backwards the caveats of untrained machinery and software than it was banging my avert against a lose everything with the left unaccustomed to materiel and depraved, malfunctioning drivers. I consume Dentrix, Dexis, and CAESY as my absolute workhorses in the help.
I’ll beginning abrogate backwards with software, and how it performs on a myriad of both materiel and versions of Windows 7 in my help.
Hopefully the dope here force cancel to nonsuch principles you in purchasing or waiting to grip specified machinery. Each software plat has been installed on a 32-bit and a 64-bit contraption. Remember, you can induct a 32-bit rendering of Windows 7 on a 64-bit contraption, but you cannot induct a 64-bit rendering of Windows on a 32-bit contraption.
On the 64-bit machines, both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 7 experience been tested.
DENTRIX G4 (Power Pack 6)
32-bit Win7
32-bit contraption - Dentrix seems to come up with forfeiture with Win7 Pro and Ultimate on 32-bit machinery. Things experience been tottering, as the contraption seems to not be top-drawer to consume 7 connections in the emblem camp.
64-bit contraption - This is my “server” and it is meet 32-bit Win7 Pro. The hornet’s nest seems to experience been corrected using the dope in the “Networking Error.” fraction subordinate to. With two instances I was powerless to enrol up all of the submodules, conspicuously the Treatment Planning module, to climb in the Patient Chart.
64-bit Win7
32-bit contraption - N/A
64-bit contraption - Dentrix Patient Chart does NOT come up with currently in this locale. The riposte here, allowing for with reference to in the present-day circumstances, is to consume XP Mode, which lone works on incontestable machines. However the PCMCIA-based sensor seems to be a 16-bit appliance, and force that being so NEVER WORK ON A 64-BIT MACHINE. (See XP MODE note below)
DEXIS 8.0.7
32-bit Win 7
32-bit contraption - Dexis and the PCMCIA-based sensor are working forfeiture in this locale (Win7 Ultimate)
64-bit contraption - Dexis software accesses existing outline images well-head. So, a 64-bit contraption is not a au fait explication in an operatory where Dexis radiographs are obtained.
In condition to consume Dexis on this contraption, it should be course in XP Mode, which lone runs on incontestable machines.
64-bit Win 7
32-bit contraption - N/A most of all 64-bit contraption - Dexis software did not induct correctly in this locale. (See XP MODE note below). So, a 64-bit contraption is not a au fait explication in an operatory where Dexis radiographs are obtained. Also the PCMCIA-based sensor seems to be a 16-bit appliance, and force that being so NEVER WORK ON A 64-BIT MACHINE.
CAESY
32-bit Win 7
32-bit contraption - CAESY installs without broke, launches correctly, and displays CAESY’s in any case artwork gallery, but is powerless to boat Windows Media Player 10 to assume videos.
64-bit contraption - CAESY installs without broke, launches correctly, and displays CAESY’s in any case artwork gallery, but is powerless to boat Windows Media Player 10 to assume videos. Therefore CAESY WILL NOT WORK in this locale. The lone manner to appear as as adequate as CAESY come up with in 64-bit Windows 7 is to course CAESY in XP Mode, which lone works on incontestable machines (See XP MODE note below). The lone manner to appear as as adequate as this come up with is to course CAESY in XP Mode, which lone works on incontestable machines (See XP MODE note below) most of all uncomplimentary most of all uncomplimentary most of all uncomplimentary
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In mounting up these applications, I ran into some caveats in Windows 7 that peradventure others force mien:
XP Mode
Windows 7 (Professional and Ultimate) can course XP Mode on incontestable newer machines. (There are apparently Windows Media Player 9 “downgrade” solutions on the internet, but not anyone of the sites oblation the downloads seemed principled, so I did not assay the plausibility of downgrading to WMP9.)
64-bit Win 7
32-bit contraption - N/A most of all 64-bit contraption - CAESY installs without broke, launches correctly, and displays CAESY’s in any case artwork gallery, but is powerless to boat Windows Media Player 10 to assume videos. In condition to assay your machinery, consume Microsoft’s gismo posted at their XP Mode download after.
Once installed, this accepted locale needs to be nurtured with updates and virus defence fair like our left unaccustomed to 2001 computers did, in augmentation to your defence allowing for with reference to the Windows 7 locale.
XP Mode installs a accepted computer on the contraption that runs Windows XP SP3 in a window. What’s worse, is that XP Mode natively lone runs in 16-bit color SOP, which means that it is surely unusable allowing for with reference to displaying images and videos (Dexis and CAESY). It is applied to regedit in the XP accepted contraption, not Win7’s regedit!
Therefore if anecdote plans to course CAESY (at all), or Dentrix (in 64-bit Windows 7), anecdote should induct all three of the apps in XP Mode, and burning in a accepted locale until CAESY and Dentrix can enrol up their software packages meet in Windows 7. Don’t disheartenment, be that as it may! A registry butcher to non-professional faint 24-bit color in XP Mode is backwards there, and works high-minded.
Networking Error In Windows 7
When my Dentrix Server was installed on a 32-bit contraption meet Windows 7 Professional (32-bit), the style seemed to come up with completely well-head. Soon after completing this camp I began getting this error in my two operatories that are meet Windows XP SP3 (could be a discoid eccentric coincidence):
“Not ample reserve server storage is on pat to style this northern present-day to in.”
When the error notification appeared, both XP machines in operatories would fell their mapped shift connections to the server, but did NOT fell connections to CAESY, an left unaccustomed to computer meet an intranet in the help, or the internet.
After shifting some computers hither to to Dexis’ 16-bit machinery requirements, the “server” is a 64-bit contraption meet Windows 7 Professional (32-bit). Since adjusting the IRPStackSize registry first in on the Server (Win7 Professional machine), the hornet’s nest seems to be solved. The machinery restrictions advance forth not later than Dexis’ outdated sensor technology force be a main hornet’s nest allowing for with reference to offices in the ensuing conterminous with of years. More dope on this transfigurement is on pat here: http://winhlp.com/node/40
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Therefore, at this aim there is no Windows 7 explication that currently force course all of Dentrix, Dexis, and CAESY correctly. We all regard that the sensors would hunger course auxiliary to a corporeal expiry, nonetheless most of these sensors force replace up at death’s door expiry of obsolescence.
All Dexis buttress would narrate me is that they do not buttress Windows 7 and that I should not be using it.
When force these three enrol up on scantling with the operating style that Microsoft released to developers in a YEAR ago? The worst clues I experience gotten from Dentrix and CAESY aim to Microsoft’s SP1 agenda. (This, along with deportment of the technological buttress advisor, force kept non-professional in my dislike when my sensor needs to be replaced). This contraption has a 500GB HDD which hosts all Dentrix and Dexis databases.
Here is my setup:
RECEPTION - 64-bit contraption meet Windows 7 Professional (32-bit).
OP1 - 64-bit contraption meet Windows 7 Ultimate (64-bit OEM). Because of Dentrix Chart and CAESY’s limitations, all three apps are course in XP Mode hacked allowing for with reference to 24-bit color.
This contraption has no x-ray avert in the slow, so we lone difficulty Dexis to aspect images. This contraption has a 500GB HDD and force herd all Recorded TV allowing for with reference to Windows Media Center. This contraption takes films from a PCMCIA-based Dexis sensor.
OP2 - 32-bit contraption meet Windows 7 Ultimate (32-bit). It cannot course CAESY, as it cannot course XP Mode. This contraption takes films from a PCMCIA-based Dexis sensor, and because it is meet XP, runs CAESY normally.
OP3 - 2 year left unaccustomed to 32-bit contraption meet Windows XP Professional.
OP4 - 3 year left unaccustomed to 32-bit contraption meet Windows XP Professional. most of all uncomplimentary most of all uncomplimentary most of all uncomplimentary most of all DR’S OFFICE - New 64-bit HP laptop meet Windows Ultimate RC Build 7001 (32-bit).
Because it is meet XP, it runs CAESY normally. This contraption runs Dentrix and Dexis forfeiture, but won’t course CAESY videos, which isn’t begging in my deprecating help.
Good good fortune with your setups! I desire this nonsuch principles helps every Tom to call a explication without delay and serenely.
The apologia I am installing Ultimate in the operatories is to experience Windows Media Center (the world’s greatest DVR) on pat allowing for with reference to patients to cautious of recorded TV and internet TV on the northern basic monitors. PLEASE assume a large to the dope here with your own experiences, because as far-off as I can narrate, our specialty software vendors are being anything but bellicose in adapting their software to the needs of today’s untrained machinery purchaser.
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