Aspire can't find Mach 3

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Aspire can't find Mach 3

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My old computer died a terrible death leaving me without a Windows XP machine. I did come by a Windows 7 machine which has a printer port.

The install of both programs (Aspire and Mach) went about as expected and both run BUT:
Aspire can't find Mach to pass the code directly and I am hesitant to connect to a running machine unless every thing works.

Anyone with a suggestion?

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Re: Aspire can't find Mach 3

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If you Google it, you should find the registry hacks required to enable it.
I think Artsoft broke this at some point, and the later versions of mach3 don't install the needed registry keys.
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Re: Aspire can't find Mach 3

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Search only produces tons of unrelated crap. Every bodies couzin tryin to sell sumpin!

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Gerry - http://www.thecncwoodworker.com

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Re: Aspire can't find Mach 3

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Appears to be relevant to Mach 4 but still takes me nowhere. I don't run Mach 4 nor a smooth stepper. I have Mach 3 and a parallel port on a Windows 7 machine. Pulling myself bald!

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Re: Aspire can't find Mach 3

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Even though the registry entries say Mach4 they are the ones that work with Mach3. Mach4 was in development for a long, long time.

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Re: Aspire can't find Mach 3

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I still don't see anything to use in that thread.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Mach4.Document]
@="Mach4.Document"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Mach4.Document\CLSID]
@="{CA7992B2-2653-4342-8061-D7D385C07809}"

What does this mean? It is gibberish to me!

Explain to this redneck please!

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Re: Aspire can't find Mach 3

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Those are the entries that you have to create in the Windows Registry.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/hel ... s-registry

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Re: Aspire can't find Mach 3

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Two kinds of people will open a fine watch: a watchmaker and a damned fool!

Not being a software wright I will elect to leave the registry right the hell alone!
I don't know anything about it and I don't mind saying so, just too dumb!

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Re: Aspire can't find Mach 3

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A kind and generous soul made the following available to me and I will re-post it here in hopes of easing someone else their headaches.

Here is a zip file that you can download, (then extract, as a reg file is not allowed as an attachment here) double click the "Aspire.reg" to install the info to the registry.
should make it a lot easier then editing with regedit.
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