How do you feel about Carken products?

[Rick2000]

I am interested in their products and wanted to talk to others about their experiences before I bought anything.
I like what the product is intended to do.
Thanks for listening.
Rick.

[whoafat]

I got a used copy of DeskCNC and have high expectations. I'm looking forward to using all four axes and try out the program's stated capability to use image/JPG files to generate g-code. I am writing the foregoing to see if a reader can provide more insight on those aspects of the program.

[whoafat]

I am running into a deadend trying to install DeskCNC. The installation goes well but I do not get the screen to register the program. The program I am trying to completely unistall was registered under a different name. Now I want to register it in my name. I unstalled and reinstalled the program three times but that did not help. I wonder if there is an easy way to get to the registration screen. Help will be appreciated,
thanks,
Wilfred

[panaceabea]

I have been very happy with desck cnc and the Gen 2 contorller board , the instal of the software can be a little tricky , ususaly need to reboot at least twice during the process to get it to recognize the controller board. Very smooth manipulation of all 4 axis when running complex parts , no pause at direction changes as with some other systems.

very quick and easy to genrate gcodes from a vatiety of file types I still use desk to generate tool paths on basic stuff for my milltronics. I do wish it had a wizard to generate thread milling paths and rigid tapping code. It would also be nice if there was a lathe specific version with a few turning wizards like mach or even better a way to generate turning tool paths from simple DXF files . I know these features were planned for desk but havent been added that I know of . Another plus is desk doesnt need the fastest computer to run smoothly, until recently I was running one of my lathes with an old 486

Whoafat I think what you need to do on your case is at the point where you have uninstalled deskcnc you need to go in and manually search for and ninstal the few components that uninstal doesnt remove. I know it leaves a desk folder in program files with some data still presen . If you search the old imsrv forum you should be able to find a thread that adresses the issue

[whoafat]

Panaceabea,
I tried to remove all the files maually but that din not help. My POC at IMSRV told me that the registration cannot be changed. She recommended to leave the program as is and change the registration when I switch computers. Sorry for not replying earlier,
Wilfred

[Joe S.]

Originally Posted by whoafat The program I am trying to completely unistall was registered under a different name. Now I want to register it in my name. I unstalled and reinstalled the program three times but that did not help. I wonder if there is an easy way to get to the registration screen. Help will be appreciated, thanks, Wilfred

I think I can help, the key word here is register. You have to manually edit the windows registery. click the start button, select run, type regedit. This will open the register editor, you will find run in the accessories folder in Vista. Anyway when you have the register editor open, click the tab marked edit, move down the list and find the word FIND, and click that. Now the search is on, type in the program name you are searching for and click find next under the text box.
Now depending upon what you want to do . . . edit or delete, this will find the program, if you are deleting, you will touch the delete key only once for each key and it will ask if you are sure. You answer yes, then to go to the next key refrencing this program, hit the F3 key and answer again. and repeat . . .
WARNING: read the keys that are found, many programs have similar names, for instance: DESKAM DESKTOP, if you only typed desk, the find utility will stop at both!<br>
EDIT: You may choose to edit instead of delete, search for a string, namely the name of the registered user, and edit the key substituting your name.
OH, BTW this is how to kill those annoying .VXD errors that occur at boot when you improperly delete a program, instead of uninstalling it, you just search for the full name of that file I E annoyingbooterror.vxd
HTH
JS