Windows 10 and Streets and Trips

[Terry_25]

Had S&T installed on old laptop with Windows Vista. Have new laptop with Windows 10. When I try to install S&T a box appears asking if I want this program to make changes to my computer, yes or no. No is highlighted. Yes is in regular type. What happens if I respond "Yes"? I'm wondering if S&T can be installed on different computers using the same cd. I'm over my head with this stuff.
Thanks for your comments.

[wa8yxm]

Eariler I mentioned a special "Driver" (intercept program actually) to fix what Microsoft did to the GPS sensor if you use it.....

http://www.turboirc.com/gps7

[strollin]

ken burke wrote:
Well, I do not agree w other posts that says you can still use micossoft S&T. You can't. Microsoft stopped supporting S@Ts 3 or 4 years ago. They let the license expire. I have not been able to use it for a year or so.
It is really a shame. I had a ton of info on my S@T that I lost. Good campgrounds, good roads, great restrauents. I lost a lot of history.
ken

I had a copy of S&T 2013 laying around. I just installed and activated it on my laptop running the latest Windows 10 update thru the license server. No problems. Works fine.

[wa8yxm]

I still use S&T but I had to re-install it from CD when I went to eithe 10 or 10A

Also they "Broke" the USB GPS dongle.. (Well the driver for it) However there is a 12.00 solution (Actually less) you can get that more or less fixes it

S&T looks for a GPS on a COM port. so the dongle appears to older versions as a COM port device.. However Microsoft now recognizes it as a "Sensor" S&T can not read the sensor. But a 3rd party makes a product that will turn that sensor into not one but TWO com ports. S&T can use one and another program the other.

Some issues but I can assist.. I've had it not work once.

[tenbear]

My S&T also runs fine but each year it gets more and more out of date. It's still ok for planning but getting more and more useless for navigation. We now use an old Garmin (I think) GPS and it works fine for navigation.

It's too bad that Microsoft decided to abandon S&T.

[Fizz]

ken burke wrote:
Well, I do not agree w other posts that says you can still use micossoft S&T. You can't. Microsoft stopped supporting S@Ts 3 or 4 years ago. They let the license expire. I have not been able to use it for a year or so.
It is really a shame. I had a ton of info on my S@T that I lost. Good campgrounds, good roads, great restrauents. I lost a lot of history.
ken

Something wrong with your setup then.
My S&T is 4 years old and running well.

[ken_burke]

Well, I do not agree w other posts that says you can still use micossoft S&T. You can't. Microsoft stopped supporting S@Ts 3 or 4 years ago. They let the license expire. I have not been able to use it for a year or so.
It is really a shame. I had a ton of info on my S@T that I lost. Good campgrounds, good roads, great restrauents. I lost a lot of history.
ken

[wa8yxm]

UPDATE time... First. I see where someon said "The antique GPS receiver it shipped with is junk. Instead using a native USB gps, they glued a really old serial port receiver onto a USB to serial adapter." That would have saved me 12 bucks.

2013 shipped with a USB dongle, Now for years (Since I got the program) it showed up as COM:4 and worked great but about half an hour out of "I don't need GPS any more" the driver updated and suddenly it is a "Sensor" and not a com port any more.. As F.F. Might say Rozin,Fozin,Friggin, Fraggit. (You get age points if you know who F.F. is)

Found the 9.99 Euro solution today.

http://turboirc.com/gps7/

You need the "Reverse" driver file.. You download the full set but the installer lets you pick and choose and you can license just the REVERSE for 9.99 Euros, currently a bit under 12 bucks US.

Got it working and S&T still was not happy

Turns out the GPS dongle was in a bad place. moved it and HAPPY.

[YC_1]

J herb wrote:

YC 1 wrote:
I decided to give my gps puck a go on my new computer and it locks the computer up. Long story short, it now does not work on any of my win 10 machines. Apparently the original mfgr of the chip had a lot of fakes out there and did something to the drivers rendering them inop in win 10 etc. Long story short, I gave up after hours of research and experimenting. I will be ordering a new gps puck.

YC, when you get your new gps puck give us a report.

My Microsoft gps puck works great with my HP laptop with windows 8.1 but won't work with windows 10 on my ACER netbook and I tried everything that everyone said to do.

GPS

[J_herb]

YC 1 wrote:
I decided to give my gps puck a go on my new computer and it locks the computer up. Long story short, it now does not work on any of my win 10 machines. Apparently the original mfgr of the chip had a lot of fakes out there and did something to the drivers rendering them inop in win 10 etc. Long story short, I gave up after hours of research and experimenting. I will be ordering a new gps puck.

YC, when you get your new gps puck give us a report.

My Microsoft gps puck works great with my HP laptop with windows 8.1 but won't work with windows 10 on my ACER netbook and I tried everything that everyone said to do.

[YC_1]

I decided to give my gps puck a go on my new computer and it locks the computer up. Long story short, it now does not work on any of my win 10 machines. Apparently the original mfgr of the chip had a lot of fakes out there and did something to the drivers rendering them inop in win 10 etc. Long story short, I gave up after hours of research and experimenting. I will be ordering a new gps puck.

[mileshuff]

fulltimedaniel wrote:
Just a general note about Windows 10.

The best practice is to be sure you download the newest updated version of any program or app to put on Win10. This is where some folks have had problems with 10.

I would update this program asap.

Numerous programs do not have any updates such is the case with S&T. Microsoft has never been big on backwards compatibility.

[J_herb]

Thanks everyone for all the good info and I will check them out.
Will do the newest updates to windows 10 and reinstall S&T and I will turn off the firewall and anti virus while I do the install, I will look into an antenna too if needed.

[YC_1]

If you cannot get it to run, turn off your protection and firewall for the time you need to load it.

If you still have problems. Click the word Compatability in the lower left part of your start screen. Learn how to run S&T install in that mode.

[fulltimedaniel]

Just a general note about Windows 10.

The best practice is to be sure you download the newest updated version of any program or app to put on Win10. This is where some folks have had problems with 10.

I would update this program asap.