hope im in the right place I've been using Ross tec vag com on my toughbook vista business then the toughbook gave up the ghost no more to do went out bought new asus laptop on my sons say comes with windows 10 , so the first job was to download vcds from Ross tec . That's when it all come to a halt plug into car did test fine tryed to save got message can't open codes file code.dat .tryed looking at about information another message.unable to write to the vcds, cfg file check that the file is not read only and that you have the rights to wright to it . Hopefully someone can help or its £800 down the drain regards oldtimer

Windows 10 should work fine with VCDS, at least it has for me.

 

I'd suggest starting a thread on the ross-tech forums as they'll should be able to clear any issues up: http://forums.ross-tech.com/

I upgraded my netbook to Win10, VCDS was already loaded and it continued to work okay - though Win10 as an upgrade to Win7 on the netbook is a real pain to use, hopefully as your was a clean instal on a new machine your one should be avoiding all the crappy way of working my old netbook has taken on!!

I am on WIN10 with latest VCDS and no issues.

 

Try running as administrator (right mouse click VCDS icon)

Thank you all will try all surgestions tonight fingers crossed

Thank you for your advice Welsh-kai-boy your surgestion was spot on and it worked first time

you can change the properties on the icon to always run under admin, mine works OK on 10, also if you are running 64 bit (which I think you will be) ensure you are running the 64 bit version of VCDS

 

John

Thank you John that could explain why the second time i tryed to use it everything went tits up, it started can't open code file code.file dat cfg file but it just kept repeating it in the end I at to go into task manager and end the program,what a pain ? Keith