Have a question? Join my community of automation professionals and take part in the discussion! You'll also find my PLC, HMI, and SCADA courses at. If you have a comment, question, or suggestion, please feel free to submit them using the “post a comment or question” link below. I hope the above look at RSLogix/Studio 5000 Windows compatibility was helpful. Lastly, in the above screen shot we can see versions 24.0.00 – 26.01.00 are listed as being Windows 8 compatible, while older versions are not. Studio 5000 compatibility with Windows 8:
The remaining versions of Windows 7 are listed as “may be compatible” which I interpret as meaning these versions have not specifically been tested, but should work. In this screen shot of Rockwell's PCDC webpage we see versions 21.0.00 – 26.01.00 are listed as being Windows 7 Pro SP1 and Home Premium SP1 compatible. Studio 5000 compatibility with Windows 7: In the above screen shot of Rockwell's PCDC webpage we can see versions 21.0.00 – 26.01.00 are all listed as not being Windows XP compatible. Studio 5000 compatibility with Windows XP: RSLogix 5000 compatibility with Windows 8:įinally, in the above screen shot of Rockwell's PCDC webpage we can see versions 16.03.00 -20.03 are all listed as not being Windows 8 compatible (I've never attempted to run them on Windows 8 myself.) While the older versions are listed as “not compatible,” I've found they do work fairly well, but small issues (like not being able to open the help files) do pop-up from time to time. In this screen shot of Rockwell's PCDC webpage we can see versions 19.01.01 – 20.03.00 are listed as being Windows 7 compatible.
RSLogix 5000 compatibility with Windows 7: In the above screen shot of Rockwell's PCDC webpage we can see versions 16.03.00 – 20.03.00 are all listed as being Windows XP compatible. RSLogix 5000 compatibility with Windows XP: In today's article we'll take a look at the results for RSLogix 5000 and Studio 5000 Logix Designer. On Wednesday in this article I discussed how to use Rockwell's PCDC webpage to look up the compatibility of Rockwell Software packages and Microsoft Windows operating systems.