Please note: Currently the driver for the Foculus camera, which is used with the RheoScope module is NOT compatible with Windows Vista 64 bit and Windows 7 64 bit.

• Download file (File: rhw4300015_update.zip, 1.7 Mbyte, from November 10 2011).

The virtual com port driver for the Viscotester D and Viscotester E is available for download here.

The virtual com port driver for the new SC and AC circulators is available for download here.

• Download driver from NET GmbH web-site (File: FOcontrol_Install_4.0.5.1.zip, 7.6 Mb).

Please note: Currently the driver for the FOculus camera is NOT compatible with Windows Vista 64 bit and Windows 7 64 bit. The camera manufacturer is working on a solution for this.

• RheoWin 4 currently supports the following HAAKE instruments:

  Rheometers	Viscometers	Circulators	Temp.Controllers
  MARS II	VT550	DC5	TC80
  MARS III
  RheoStress 6000		F6, N6	TC81
  RheoStress 3000	RotoVisco 1	F8, N8	TC500
  RheoStress 600		DC30, DC50	TC501
  RheoStress 300	VT6L, VT6R, VT7L, VT7R	F3C	TP1800
  RS150	VT7L-plus, VT7R-plus	Phoenix	UTC
  RS80			CTC (Oven)
  RS75	VT D, VT E	Dynamax
  RT20			MTMC (MARS III)
  RheoStress 1  *		SC150, AC200 **	UTMC
  RheoScope 1

• * RheoWin 4 currently does not support the first series of RheoStress 1 instruments, for these instrument only RheoWin 3.x upto version 3.5x can be used.
  The first series of RheoStress 1 instrument can be recognized by the silver coloured drive motor shaft.
  The second series of RheoStress 1 instrument have a dark coloured drive motor shaft.
• ** RheoWin 4 currently does not support the PCxxx circulators. We are working on a solution for this.
       RheoWin 4 does not support SCxxx and ACxxx circulators with firmware version 095441.2A.
• RheoWin 4 does not support older instruments like the RT10, VT500, VT501 and the RV20+RC20/RV30 with CV20, CV100, M5 or M10. For these instruments please use RheoWin 2.97.
• RheoWin 4 also does not support the RS100 1 Ncm, the RS100 5 Ncm und the RS50.
  For these instruments please use RheoWin 3.61.

• We recommend the use of one of the following Microsoft Windows operating systems:
  
  - Windows 7 (both the 32-bit and the 64-bit version).
  - Windows Vista with or without any Service Pack.
  - Windows XP with or without any Service Pack.
  - Windows 2000 with Service Pack 1 (or higher)
   
• RheoWin also runs under one of the following Microsoft Windows operating systems, however please note that Microsoft does not supply support for these operating systems anymore!
  
  - Windows NT4.0 with Service Pack 6 and Internet Explorer 6
   
• RheoWin will not run under the following Microsoft Windows operating systems (or any other operating system)
  
  - Windows ME
  - Windows 98 SE
  - Windows 98 with Y2K update and Internet Explorer 4.01 SP2
  - Windows 95
  - Windows 3.x
  - Windows NT3.x !
   
• IMPORTANT: In order to be able to make RheoWin compliant with the FDA 21 CFR part 11 it is required that RheoWin runs under  Windows Vista, Windows XP or Windows 2000 (or Windows NT 4.0 with the above mentioned restrictions).
   
• We highly recommends the use of a PC with a Pentium IV (or faster) processor and at least 512 Mb of RAM.

The keys for RheoWin 4 consist of a company name, serial number and the key code. You will have to enter this information manually during the installation. When you receive the key per e-mail this information will be stored in a *.key or *.txt file which can be opened and viewed by using any text-editor (Notepad, Write, Word, etc.)

A separate license key is needed for installing the tools for FDA 21 CFR part 11 compliance. A separate license key is also needed to install the TTS (Time Temperature Superposition) tool, the Spectra calculation tool and the MWD tool.

License Keys for RheoWin 4 are available on request only !

In order to request a RheoWin 4 license key download the RheoWin Key order form fill it out as completely as possibly, save it and send it to support.mc.de[at]thermofisher.com (replace [at] by @). You will then receive your new key per e-mail.
 
 

The installation program of RheoWin 4 offers the user the possibility to transfer all settings (apart from the Unit settings) from a previous installation of RheoWin 3.xx.

Here's how to install RheoWin:

1. Please note that (Windows) Administrator rights are needed to install RheoWin!
    
2. From a directory on your harddisk in which you unzipped the *.ZIP files:
   To install RheoWin from harddisk go to the (temporary) directory in which you unzipped the *.ZIP files after downloading. Please make sure that you have the following 7 files in that directory : HAAKE RheoWin.msi, Setup.exe, Data1.cab, 1031.mst, 1033.mst, 1034.mst, 1036.mst, 1043.mst. To start the installation please run the Setup.exe program.
    
3. From the RheoWin CD:
   This CD is "self-starting", just click on "Install HAAKE RheoWin 4" to start the installation. In case the installation screen does not come up automatically you can start it by double-clicking on the file "index.htm" in the Windows explorer, this will show the installation screen in your web-browser. You can also start the installation by run the setup.exe program from the RheoWin directory on the CD

The installation program will guide you through the installation. Please make sure that you have a RheoWin 4 License Key (see above) readily available since the installation program will ask for this.

For Windows users with the default Users rights an Administrator has to make sure that those users have read access to the RheoWin 4 main directory (by default c:\Program Files\Thermo\RheoWin) and all its subdirectories, as well as read and write (!) access to the

HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Thermo\RheoWin

key in the windows registry and the following two directories and all their subdirectories

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Thermo\RheoWin
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\Thermo\RheoWin.

Microsoft advices programmers to save application and user data in the above metnioned directories by default, but strange enough does not give Windows users with the default Users rights write access to these directories!