A combination of factors requires that you follow special instructions for installing LensVIEW 2003 on Windows 7.

Before you begin, please make sure that you have administrative privileges on your Windows 7 computer.

1) Installing the Sentinel Driver

The Sentinel hardware key that comes with LensVIEW requires that a software driver be installed. If you use a hardware key for another optical softtware program, such as OSLO, Zemax, CodeV, TracePro, ...etc., then the proper driver should already be installed. However, installing the latest version of this software driver over existing versions of the driver should not be a problem.

Click Here to install the latest Sentinel Driver

2) Installing LensVIEW 2003

Install LensVIEW by placing the installation CD-ROM into the computer and following the onscreen prompts.
Some tips that will help you with the installation:

• Allow autorun.inf to run, if prompted
• DO NOT opt to install the Sentinel driver during this portion of the installation
• Even though the default installation folder is "C:\LensVIEW", it is recommended that you change the folder so that LensVIEW is installed into the "C:\Program Files (x86)\LensVIEW" folder

3) Changing the installation folder to have read/write access

• Using Windows Explorer, navigate to the "C:\Program Files (x86)\LensVIEW" folder
• Right-click on the LensVIEW folder, choose Properties from the pop-up menu
• Uncheck the "read-only" attribute and save this change

3) Start LensVIEW

The first tine you start up LensVIEW, you may get an "Access Denied" error.
Go ahead and choose to "Ignore" this error.
After this first time starting LensVIEW, you should not get this "Access Denied" error again.