2001 stu version crashes on windows xp porfessional edition

[Lambrusco75]

I have tried installing and reinstalling and I can not seem to get proe2001 to even come up on-screen. When I click the icon it comes up for about 3 seconds in the toolbar at the bottom. I don't know if I have some sort of restriction or something, and I do have the cd in

 

[Guest]

Did you upgrade to WinXP from a previous edition of Windows? There are some problems with that.



Try these threads. There have been many on the subject of Pro/E student edition and Windows XP:



http://www.proecentral.com/portal/forum/searchResult.asp?key=install



http://www.proecentral.com/portal/forum/searchResult.asp?key=Windows XP



http://www.proecentral.com/portal/forum/searchResult.asp?key=win xp

 

[Guest]

Do you have an environment variable called named winbootdir? To check, right-click on My Computer, select Properties > Advanced Tab > Environment Variables.



If you have it, delete it. It's not used by Windows XP anyway, and causes problems with Pro/E. It is left over by an upgrade to WinXP from Win95, Win98, or Windows ME.



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Here's another thing to try. I got this solution from Brian Adkins, a well-known guru, from the archives at

http://www.ptcuser.org/exploder/pro-user/200302/msg00083.html







The start-up script for Pro/E:

crogram Filesproe2001binproe2001-stu.bat

could not determine either the machine type or operating system properly.



This could be due the fact that the user was running XP-home on a pentium-4.





Solution:

add the following line to the start-up script AFTER all of the processor and

OS checks, and BEFORE the MC variable gets used:



set MC=i486_nt



So this would be a snippit of your start-up script:

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if %PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE% == MIPS set MC=r4000_nt

if %PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE% == ALPHA set MC=alpha_nt

if not %winbootdir% == set mc=i486_win95

if not %MC% == unset goto mc_done

echo ERROR Cannot detect what machine type you have.

echo Please make one of the following settings:

echo.

echo set PROCESSOR=Alpha_AXP - For Windows NT Alpha based machines.

echo.

echo set PROCESSOR=MIPS_R4000 - For Windows NT MIPS based machines.

echo.

echo set PROCESSOR=INTEL_486 - For Windows NT Intel based machines.

echo.

echo set winbootdir=<boot dir> - For Windows 95/98 machines.

echo.

exit

:mc_done



set MC=i486_nt



if NOT %mc% == i486_win95 goto postenv4096

if %env4096% == true goto postenv4096

set env4096=true

command.com /E:4096 /C %0 %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9

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I found that adding this line to the script solved the start-up problem, but

you could just as easily set an environment variable that would allow the

script to identify the machine.





BTW, It turns out that the original claim of the users that Pro/E was

starting up, but not working was incorrect. Pro/E was bombing out half-way

through the start-up script.