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Brutus

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Bought Quickload last year and loaded it on my computer with Windows 8.
Software ran fine but Windows 8 didn't. Jumped at the opportunity for a free upload to Windows 10 even though I would have preferred Windows 7.
Everything was working fine until a couple weeks ago when Windows 10 developed a glitch and I had to re-install it with the help of Microsoft.
Now Quickload is kaput. Tried to do an uninstall and then a re-install but I keep getting "path file access error" and 9 issues of file not found.
Don't ya just love computers. :mad:
 
I am a computer idiot, but my wife has been a software engineer for 38 years.
She is having trouble with her windows 10 update. Her phone will not talk to her computer.

My son is a software engineer at Google, and works on getting devices to sync.

My daughter in law, also a software engineer, and is part of the push at Microsoft to get everyone into the Windows 10 update.

I have a camper on order and when it gets here I will buy a laptop to run Quickload while I am on the road. I will do lots of begging to get help to get set up.
 
I've been a systems engineer(we dig holes electronically, but really just a glorified techie.) for 20 years and a computer tech before that. Technicians fix the stuff programmers and software engineers screw up. snicker.
Windows 10 is reported to have a lot of bugs. Yet another example of St. Bill's minions releasing stuff that doesn't work.
Windows 8 lasted 4 years before St. Bill's minions ended support for it this past January.
You might be able to run 'restore' and go back to Win 8, but I doubt it. For Win 7 you'll have to track down a legit copy and install it.
QuickLoad is a program written by people who usually have never seen a real firearm. Far too many variables for a computer program like QuickLoad to be accurate.
 
QuickLoad is a program written by people who usually have never seen a real firearm.
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Uuuuuhh... Have you ever actually used QuickLoad, ...and/or actually seen/had it used by another to generate load options ?
 
T.O'heir boy can I relate to you. Started programming CNC machines back in th 70's with nothing more than a TI calculator and a trig book. Thought I really moved up the tech ladder when I got my first RPN programmable calculator. Nowadays basic math skills are a thing of the past, everything is done by 3d cartoons.
As far as Quick Load goes I find it usefull, seems pretty reliable for bottleneck rifle loads,
straight wall handgun loads not so much. While well established loads using powders such as Unique or ww231 seem spot on newer powders don't fair so well. As an example AA#9 listed
with a max load of 14.4gr.under a 180grXTP for10mm is in several loading manuals.
I have gone up to 14gr with no ill effect but settled on 13.8gr for 1250fps. and excellent accuracy. According to Quick load it is certain to blow up my gun, go figure:rolleyes:
 
IMhO Windows 98SE (Second Edition) was the only operating system Microsoft ever tried to actually perfect...i.e. correct or fix all the problems in it. :D

Okay, maybe Windows 3.11 but that wasn't really modern like '98. :D:D

Uhmmm to get this back on the gun track, do you really need higher calibers to shoot up later versions of Microsoft products or are you okay if you use the same caliber and just use heavier for caliber bullets or hand load for greater velocity?
 
QuickLoad is a program written by people who usually have never seen a real firearm. Far too many variables for a computer program like QuickLoad to be accurate.
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You obviously have no idea what you are talking about.

The author of QL has more ballistic knowledge and experience in his little finger then everyone on the forum combined, cept for Unclenick
 
Good question Dale,
In my opinion Widows 7 would probably die gracefully with a standard .243 Winchester round as it wasn't terribly troublesome.
Windows 10 is a bit new but I'm inclined to believe nothing less than a 150gr. .308 would be required to dispatch it quickly.
Widows 8 on the other hand would require a 300gr. 338 Lapua with two 20 round magazines. The first 20 would be necessary to kill all the stupid APPS before you could get to the heart of the operating system.;)
 
Brutus
T.O'heir boy can I relate to you. Started programming CNC machines back in th 70's with nothing more than a TI calculator and a trig book. Thought I really moved up the tech ladder when I got my first RPN programmable calculator. Nowadays basic math skills are a thing of the past, everything is done by 3d cartoons.
As far as Quick Load goes I find it usefull, seems pretty reliable for bottleneck rifle loads,
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In the 70s I had to take Fortran and PDP11. My brain was born to do Euclidian geometry, but not to learn syntax. I bribed my way though computers. The wife graduated at the top of the class of 600 EEs and I graduated at the bottom of the class. But just like negotiating bribes to get a degree, I stole designs, blew up my designs as part of the design process, diddle boxed control loops to find critical damping, hired other people to do the work, and did other shortcuts. Being code ignorant has been berry berry good to me.

Just like all my other engineering shortcuts... Quickload is the answer book for bottleneck cartridges. I would bet money that with a cartridge I have never shot, say 25-06 later this year, I can use Quickload to predict within 1 grain, the threshold of extractor groove expansion in a work up. That kind of predictive ability saves me time.
 
Quick load is what it is I don't take it's results as gospel I consider it just one more research tool in my tool box. My 10mm example was developed prior to my purchase of Quickload and serves to demonstrate that no one tool in the box is perfect.
 
Quickload thinks my Power Pistol 9mm hot handloads are over 1,000,000 psi and 2000 fps.
But the primers don't pierce.
So QL is worthless with hot loads in straight wall cases that make a big fireball.
It even says a much in the manual.

In straight wall cartridges with pressures near SAAMI registered max average pressure, the predictions are usable.

In bottleneck cartridges, often the prediction of velocity is right in the middle of the chrono string.
I have to get the jug of powder to match the Quickload library:
a) My first jug of H4350 over the chrono gave the right results if I entered into QL 4% less than I was using.
b) My jug of Varget is right on the money with QL
c) My jugs are 1960s 4895 bulk powder match QL if I enter it as H322.
d) My IMR4166 jug matches when I enter it in QL as IMR4895.

When I jam into the lands, I bump up the start pressure in QL 2kpsi to get things to match.
 
Brutus said:
Bought Quickload last year and loaded it on my computer with Windows 8.
Software ran fine but Windows 8 didn't. Jumped at the opportunity for a free upload to Windows 10 even though I would have preferred Windows 7.
Everything was working fine until a couple weeks ago when Windows 10 developed a glitch and I had to re-install it with the help of Microsoft.
Now Quickload is kaput. Tried to do an uninstall and then a re-install but I keep getting "path file access error" and 9 issues of file not found.
Don't ya just love computers. :mad:
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Have you found the file yourself? Sometimes when updating files get moved and the computer can't find them. If you can find it, and move it back to where the computer thinks it is, you should be able to get it to work. The path file access error makes me think that the computer is basically getting lost trying to find the file.

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