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Using a Non-Standard Pipe Type in HydraCALC

A customer called today asking how to enter a 1″ black plastic underground pipe for the calc. This particular situation sounded unique enough that I did not tell him to add that pipe type to our database, as I would have if he expected to see this pipe type used repeatedly. I told him to…

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Using the Hydratec Software Download Area

Hydratec uses ShareFile to distribute our software installs and updates. New customers, or those without access, must request access to be able to get at these downloads. Access is only available to customers with a Hydratec subscription or those on an update plan. You can access the download area and request access by picking the…

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Upgrading Windows 8 to Windows 8 Pro

What do I mean? Well, My coworker's machine got mucked up and we decided to install Windows 8 and start over. After the installation, I noticed that I was unable to connect to our server. I looked and his machine said it had Windows 8 – so what's the deal?

Turns out that some marketing weenies decided that the terminology 'Windows 8' would be used instead of 'Windows 8 Home Edition' (which was the terminology for Window 7, XP, Vista Home Editions). And, 'Windows 8 Enterprise and Professional' editions will just be called 'Windows 8 Pro'. I had used the product key for Windows 8 (Home) instead of the one I should have used (Pro.

Now what? Do I have to reinstall Win 8? Luckily not. Seems you can go to the app screen and type Settings and then select that. Then, you can pick Add Features to Windows. That will allow you to buy an addon for Win 8 to add the Pro features or (in my case) type in a new product key to install and activate the Pro version. Not too shabby, but I wished they had stuck with the earlier version names.

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