LT Spice updates

Maybe uninstall it and install from the latest download.

Yes, I'm trying to run the upgrade.

Grumble.

Does it work OK? I've seen reports of problems running older schematic files in version 24.

"The people's thoughts are constrained by their tools of production" seems like a vaguely appropriate Marxian aphorism.

I don't know if Marx ever said something like "Updaters are a tool of last resort" IME the ratio of "Oh the update fixed something" to "Oh it broke something that worked fine before" is about 1 to 3

Unfortunately I don't use it enough to have run into that issue. Files I have from 2015 appear to open fine. Since asc is a text file it shouldn't be hard to fix issues with opening older files.

It's been a long time since the average software update switched from actually fixing anything to forcing the latest version into use.

I frequently find a need to use an older program on Windows XP, including posting here. It's all in a VM now, accessed by remote desktop, so I can be XP one second and Win10 the next. Also useful when playing with cpu intensive software such as AI. Leave it running on another computer then get the result by remote desktop.