I've gotten a new laptop powerful enough to run several instances of my old laptop at once in VMWare. So this time around I'm going so segregate my softwares into separate VMs. Not a separate VM for each-and-every single piece of software, but the idea is to only throw the kids that play nice together into the same pool.
I plan to have RSlogix 500 & 5000 (and all the **** that comes with those), Omron CX-One (and all the **** that comes with that) and Sysmac Studio, Siemens Step 7 and Tia portal, and a bunch of other stuff for Automation direct, Idec, Mitsubishi, Pilz, etc and a bunch of VFD/servo software. My old laptop is just filled to the brim with this stuff and half of it doesn't work anymore from everyone trying to hog the same resources. Or from me making booboos, uninstalling parts of the packages and whatnot.
I've added (and removed) this software to this old laptop over a span of several years and no longer remember what I did to cause these problems. Hypothetical example: Did RSLinx stop working when I installed that virtual COM port or was it when I installed that rockwell update patch? Probably neither. Probably that time I tried to uninstall Factory Talk and got the BSOD. Think you know what I mean.
So who are the troublemakers that need to be confined to their own corners? Feel free to speak up about software I haven't mentioned here, because my list is not all inclusive and who knows what I will want to install in the future.
I plan to have RSlogix 500 & 5000 (and all the **** that comes with those), Omron CX-One (and all the **** that comes with that) and Sysmac Studio, Siemens Step 7 and Tia portal, and a bunch of other stuff for Automation direct, Idec, Mitsubishi, Pilz, etc and a bunch of VFD/servo software. My old laptop is just filled to the brim with this stuff and half of it doesn't work anymore from everyone trying to hog the same resources. Or from me making booboos, uninstalling parts of the packages and whatnot.
I've added (and removed) this software to this old laptop over a span of several years and no longer remember what I did to cause these problems. Hypothetical example: Did RSLinx stop working when I installed that virtual COM port or was it when I installed that rockwell update patch? Probably neither. Probably that time I tried to uninstall Factory Talk and got the BSOD. Think you know what I mean.
So who are the troublemakers that need to be confined to their own corners? Feel free to speak up about software I haven't mentioned here, because my list is not all inclusive and who knows what I will want to install in the future.