ArcGIS 9.3 Running Well On Microsoft Windows 7

Posted by Jithen (J) Singh in ESRI on Wednesday, January 14, 2009 | 6 comments

I have now got ArcGIS 9.3 successfully installed and running well on Microsoft Windows 7.  So it was a bit of a task to figure out why things wouldn’t work on Windows 7 and basically the problems came down to the following:

  1. Registering vbscript.dll
  2. Installing Microsoft Core XML Services (MSXML) 4.0 SP2 In Windows Vista Compatibility Mode
  3. Running ArcGIS 9.3 Installation With Elevated Permissions

Full instructions on how to install ArcGIS 9.3 Service Pack 1 on Microsoft Windows 7 can be found in my post here: http://geo.geek.nz/esri/…

I will be testing general compatibility over the next few days and I will post about any issues I find. To go with this I’ll also be installing ArcGIS Server 9.3. I am sure that might be more of a task to get working since IIS is involved :)



6 Responses to “ “ArcGIS 9.3 Running Well On Microsoft Windows 7”

  1. GaNBaYaR Mongolia says:
    January 1, 1970 at 12:00 pm

    Thanx man.

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  2. Bo Erny says:
    January 1, 1970 at 12:00 pm

    Very interesting article. I also installed ArcGIS Desktop 9.3 + SP1 on Windows 7 and had no problems. Works like a charm, very fast. the only problem i encountered: MrSID-files don´t work. any ideas why?

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  3. Peyman says:
    January 1, 1970 at 12:00 pm

    How do you know you had ArcGIS Server 9.3 installed "successfully?" This is my first time doing it. It seems everythinig has been installed, but how can I confirm that? Thank you.

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  4. joe says:
    January 1, 1970 at 12:00 pm

    i had a problem license manager can’t start

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  5. Jc says:
    January 1, 1970 at 12:00 pm

    Hi, nice to see some one got it working. But I have a problem, I have the beta version of Win 7 (build 3000) on my pc and here is the strange thing. I managed to get ArcGIS 9.2 Licence manager to start. First it just refused, but I started the server and went went to make some coffie and when I got back there was some message from windows, asking if I want to allow this app to run and after that it worked fine. Do any of you have any idea whay it works on my pc and not on every one elses win 7 (even on the same build).

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  6. Vityea says:
    January 10, 2009 at 7:07 pm

    I have an error for installing Licence Manager. It doesn’t run that cause ArcGIS not run too because it need lmrg to run. how to solve this?

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