Gents,

I have done extensive testing of Mach 4 V2 on 3 machines. All running Win 10 PRO. Home will NOT work. Here are some things to ensure there are no interference's from Windows 10 PRO on Mach:

1. Make sure that Smart Screen is turned OFF. (MOST IMPORTANT) Mach will crash and stall. Fail to restart without reboot. In Control Panel go to Security settings. Find Smart Screen. Set to OFF. This causes issues when you shutdown Mach and do not reboot. Why? Because WIN 10 thinks Mach is an internet program. Go Windows.... Lol.
2. Set your App security to allow anything. WIN 10 Pro allows this. Home... Not so much. It is under user security.
3. The glorious Windows Defender App. You cannot turn it off directly. You must disable the service.
4. AVG Anti-Virus works fine and does not screw with Mach 4 V2. Most others do. They are too intrusive. Skinny is best.
5. Make sure you do NOT use compatibility modes. Under the program properties menu. Right click Mach icon.
6. Set in the program security settings to always run as admin.


As I complete the testing I will post more. But, overall the performance difference from XP, and 8.1 are leaps and bounds better. I think that maybe Billy got it right this time. But, the jury is still out. 

Don

Thanks for posting the information Don.

Tweakie.

Of course. Makes things simple if these things are shared.

Not trying to throw fuel on the fire but....

PMDX has customers who are successfully running Mach4 with Windows 10 Home on
both laptops and on a SurfacePro tablet.

Due to the auto-update issues, we still recommend Windows 10 Pro over Home.

You can of course. But industrial users should never trail the home edition. Its a control, not a PC.

You can of course. But industrial users should never trail the home edition. Its a control, not a PC.

I guess I shouldn't say I'm in love so I won't.   

Hi guys,

Just got a new computer and tried to download Mach4, but AVG (free version) keeps sending the Mach4 downloader to it's Virus Vault. If I disable AVG and run the downloader, Mach4 loads, but when I try to open/run it (with AVG activated again) AVG once again blocks Mach4 stating that it's infected with a virus!
Windows 10 Home 64 bit, AVG Free Version.
Anyone else having this problem?

Nick.

P.S Downloaded and ran Mill Wizard without any problem.

run its as admin

Your problem is with AVG, not with Mach4.

Just got a new computer and tried to download Mach4, but AVG (free version) keeps sending the Mach4 downloader to it's Virus Vault. If I disable AVG and run the downloader, Mach4 loads, but when I try to open/run it (with AVG activated again) AVG once again blocks Mach4 stating that it's infected with a virus!
Windows 10 Home 64 bit, AVG Free Version.
Anyone else having this problem?

Yeah, AVG falsely detects Mach4 build 2872 as containing the Win32/Heur virus.  And not just on Win10.  I've confirmed with the Mach4 developers that build 2872 is *not* infected.  So your choices are to either drop back to 2803 (which did not trigger AVG at least on my PCs), or disable AVG when you run Mach4.  I've found that even if you tell AVG to let the program run, Mach4 will not run successfully.  You have to disable AVG.

Bob