Hardware Requirements

• Intel Pentium II 450 or higher (Pentium 4 1GHz recommended).
  AQtime Pro also supports the following processors:
  • Processors of the Intel Core family (Intel Core i7, Intel Core Duo, Intel Core 2 Duo and others)
  • Intel Xeon and Intel Xeon MP
    Some profiling counters are not supported on the Intel Xeon multi-core processors with the Hyper-Threading technology, for instance, on Intel Xeon Duo Core processors with hyper threading.
  • Intel Pentium II, Intel Pentium III
  • Intel Pentium 4 (including Intel Pentium 4 supporting Hyper-threading Technology and Intel Pentium 4 Extreme Edition supporting Hyper-Threading Technology)
  • Mobile Intel Pentium 4
  • Intel Pentium Extreme Edition, Intel Pentium D, Intel Pentium M
  • Intel Celeron, Intel Celeron D, Intel Celeron M
  • AMD Phenom
  • AMD Phenom II
  • AMD Athlon 64 FX
  • AMD Athlon XP, AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core, AMD Athlon 64
  • AMD Sempron
  • AMD Opteron
  • AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile Technology and AMD Turion 64 Mobile Technology
  • AMD Athlon 64 for DTR
  • Mobile AMD Athlon 64
  • Mobile AMD Sempron
• 256 MB of RAM (1 GB or more recommended).
• 250 MB hard disk space for installation and 500 MB for using the product.
• SVGA (800×600) or higher resolution monitor.
• Mouse or other pointing device.

Note: AQtime Pro may consume a lot of memory to store profiler information. Therefore, when working with large projects, it is recommended that you allocate as much physical RAM as possible so that Windows does not use the swap file.

Operating System and Internet Explorer

• Operating system:
  • Microsoft Windows 7 (either 32-, or 64-bit edition).
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (either 32-, or 64-bit edition).
    Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 is also supported.
  • Microsoft Windows Vista (either 32-, or 64-bit edition).
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (either 32-, or 64-bit edition).
  • Microsoft Windows XP (either 32-, or 64-bit edition).
  • Microsoft Windows 2000.
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or later.

Important notes:

If you use a computer that has several processors or a multiple-core processor (for example, dual-core CPU) and has Windows XP Service Pack 2, then you must install the Windows update #896256 in order for AQtime to be able to profile your application correctly. The update can be obtained in the following ways:

• Installed as part of Windows XP Service Pack 3.
• Installed via Windows Update.
• Downloaded from Microsoft’s website:

  » http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896256

To use AQtime Pro on Windows Server 2008 R2, the WoW64 component is required. The Server Core installation option for Windows Server 2008 R2 does not install WoW64 by default, so, you should install it yourself. This requirement concerns both AQtime Pro x86 and x64 packages.

Profiling .NET Applications

To profile .NET applications, Microsoft .NET Framework 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 or 4.0 is required.

Profiling Java Code

To profile Java applications, you must have one of the following Java virtual machines installed on your computer:

• Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) ver. 1.5 or 1.6.

Profiling Silverlight Applications

To profile Silverlight applications, AQtime Pro requires that Microsoft Silverlight 4 be installed on your computer.

Profiling Scripts

To profile VBScript and JScript functions, AQtime Pro requires the Windows Script and Script Debugger components. Typically, these components are already installed on your machine: the Windows Script component is supplied with the operating system (since Windows 98) and the Script Debugger is shipped along with Visual Studio (since version 2003) and Microsoft Office (versions XP and later).

If you have problems with script profiling, try reinstalling these components. You can find standalone packages of these components at Microsoft Download Center (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads). Search for the following items:

• Windows Script (Windows Script 5.6 or later is required)
• Script Debugger

To profile script routines, you also need to specify certain user permissions and prepare the host application in a certain way. See Profiling Scripts - Prerequisites in AQtime Pro documentation.

User Account

To install and use AQtime Pro, you must have administrator permissions on your computer. AQtime Pro can be installed and used under different user accounts, but all of them must have administrator permissions.

Running Under Windows 7, Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008

To be used under Windows 7, Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008, AQtime Pro must be launched under an account with administrator privileges.

AQtime Pro and Windows DDK

If you have Windows DDK installed, then after installing AQtime Pro:

• Launch Driver Verifier (a tool from the Windows DDK package) and
• Disable verification of the aqIPD7.sys driver (the aqIPD7.sys driver is part of AQtime Pro).

Driver Verifier blocks the AQtime Pro driver, so you need to disable verification for the AQtime Pro driver.

Integration into IDEs

AQtime Pro can be integrated into Microsoft Visual Studio and Embarcadero RAD Studio (and into earlier versions of RAD Studio by CodeGear and Borland):

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2010,
  Microsoft Visual Studio 2008,
  Microsoft Visual Studio 2005,
  Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003,
  Microsoft Visual Studio .NET.
• Embarcadero RAD Studio XE2 (including localized versions),
  Embarcadero RAD Studio XE (including localized versions),
  Embarcadero RAD Studio 2010 (including localized versions).
• CodeGear RAD Studio 2009,
  CodeGear RAD Studio 2007.
• Borland Developer Studio 2006, Update 2.

Licensing

To activate an AQtime Pro license, the computer must be connected to the Internet. After the license is activated, an Internet connection is not required. 

If you are going to use an AQtime Pro Floating User license, your computer must have a network connection.

For more information about AQtime Pro licensing and activation, see AQtime 7 Pro Licensing Guide.