How to Install SRIM Software on Windows 7

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Discussion Overview

The discussion focuses on the installation process of SRIM software on Windows 7, including issues related to the TRIM configuration utility TIN.EXE and its performance on different operating systems.

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Main Points Raised

  • One participant inquires about the installation process for SRIM software on Windows 7.
  • Another participant reports issues with TIN.EXE being unresponsive and consuming high CPU resources, despite successful installation of SRIM.
  • Some participants suggest that installing an older version of SRIM on Windows XP before installing a newer version may resolve issues.
  • It is noted that TIN.EXE works flawlessly on a plain installation of Windows XP without any user interface tweaks.
  • A participant mentions that setting the Regional Setting to “English (United States)” is necessary for TIN.EXE to function correctly, as it requires a specific decimal point format.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants express differing experiences with the installation and functionality of SRIM and TIN.EXE, indicating that multiple competing views remain regarding the best approach to resolve the issues.

Contextual Notes

Some limitations include the dependency on specific regional settings and the varying performance of the software across different operating systems and configurations.

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how to install SRIM software on windows 7?
 
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How to install *any* version of SRIM/TRIM, and get the TRIM configuration utility TIN.EXE working? Otherwise everything works but TIN.EXE is completely unresponsive, eating some 30% CPU:
http://i6.aijaa.com/t/00447/12204702.t.jpg

TIN.EXE can only be stopped in taskmanager. I have tried installing SRIM on several systems and I always seem to get this problem.
 
it seems you must install older version on windows XP , then install the newer on to run it.
 
The same problem also with WinXP, with older and new SRIM. However, on a plain-vanilla WinXP with no UI tweaks at all it works flawlessly.

Then, in http://www.srim.org/SRIM/SRIM 08.pdf I spotted following:
To setup TRIM, you have to declare in Windows that your Regional
Setting is “English (United States)”, which uses a period as a decimal point.

Try this in Win 7, too, ... and now TIN.EXE works.

I had always declared period as decimal point but this is apparently not sufficient. TIN.EXE seems to require that region has been declared as US.
 

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