Windows 7 N + Autodesk Civil 3D 2013 + Storm & Sanitary Analysis

I just learned something new today. It's a flavor of Windows called: Windows 7 N. It is Windows 7 "Not with the Media Player."

The implications of this special flavor is that when you run AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 with Autodesk Storm & Sanitary Analysis 2013 installed, you will get this error:

 Error 1904. VisioForge_Video_Capture_4.ocx failed to register.

You will need to manually install the Windows Media Player to get around this problem.

Reference

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itprogeneral/thread/7967abc0-b1fd-402e-86f3-79827d5f62c5/

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/190990

http://upandready.typepad.com/up_and_ready/2012/10/civil-3d-2013-where-is-storm-sanitary-analysis-subassembly-composer.html

Thanks to Byron Morales for sharing this tidbit of information.

Comments

[Darren]

i have never heard of this flavor of Windows 7

[David Lau]

Haha. I was in the same boat. The reference link also points to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7_editions which also talks about the N, KN and VL builds.