Everything worked fine until I opened a project in SolidWorks…I was shocked…SolidWorks was useless! I was expecting a little performance drop, but not this much. We upgraded our workstations to Windows 10 and installed SolidWorks 2019. We decided to perform the upgrade now, before the next big project begins. This means that slowly everyone will be forced to upgrade to a new version of OS. Personally I keep it enabled on my desktop and disabled on my laptop but would like to see this as an opt-in feature instead of an opt-out.As you might know, the next year Microsoft is removing support for Windows 7. To prevent this from happening, go to Start > All Programs > Startup and remove the shortcut to the SolidWorks Background Downloader.Īlthough this can be a useful tool for some, it can sometimes choose the wrong time to start downloading and cause issues with companies that have a large majority of users on the same network. There have been issues with the background downloader returning on a restart. Once selected a message will display notifying you that to reenable you will need to go to Start > All Programs > SolidWorks Installation Manager > SolidWorks Background Downloader. In the system tray, as pictured above, right click on the SolidWorks Background Downloader icon and select "Disable Background Downloader". SolidWorks Installation Manager - During installation in the " Summary" screen under "Download Options" click on Change and uncheck both options under " Do you want to use the Background Downloader?". At first mention this reminded me Google's Chrome browser, which downloads it's updates in the background, installing before the next launch without the user's intervention.Īlthough convenient in theory, a web browser and a 3D CAD application are completely different animals and with this new background downloader being setup to download by default, users are wondering how to turn it off and stop it from launching. It is a small application that runs in the Windows system tray claiming not to hinder performance while downloading the latest and greatest from SolidWorks. There were mixed reviews of the new feature in SolidWorks 2011 for taking the sting out of downloading patches called the Background Downloader.
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