I was able to get single user licensed mathcad 11 running on XPM in W7 professional 64 bit, which I just upgraded to in the past month. Here is an update to yesterday's post, now including how to get the service updates. Since over two years have passed since the original posts, it may well be that PTC now has a new setup file or something that would work better than this. The following is what worked on my setup, using the Mathcad 11 CD labeled 309.1.
summary
- get the activation wizard working from the cd, by running mcad.exe on cd or by running as evaluation only.
- get the C_DILLA folder into XPM C:\, activated with key from PTC website form & email.
- run the cd setup program on the W7 side to load program files.
- run the service release updates to get to v11.2a on the W7 side.
- copy the whole Mathsoft directory over from W7 side C:\Program Files (x86)\
into the XPM C:\Program Files\ folder. You can cut and paste from W7 to XPM.
- in XPM run C:\Program Files\Mathsoft\Mathcad 11\regtool.exe select [Register Components].
- install e-books and extensions directly from CD on XPM side.
problem
The setup exec on the CD loads the program files into the Windows 7 x86 program directory, but setup never gets to the activation wizard part of setup. Under Windows Virtual PC running XPMode (XPM), the CD setup program would not run at all.
activation
I was able to get the activation wizard going somehow, directly from the CD. It may have been by going into D:\Mathcad\program files\Mathsoft\Mathcad 11\mcad.exe. or it might have been by by trying to run mathcad from cd with "evaluation copy only" checkmarked (no product code needed), and I can't recall if it was while running the CD in XPM or on the W7 side. I had tried so many different things that I can't recall exactly which was the one that worked, and I can't seem to recreate the scenario, perhaps because the registry is changed. But eventually I did get a message that the evaluation trial period had expired and I needed to activate the product. Then i was able to put in my product code, generate a request code, submit it to PTC, receive an activation key, rerun the CD mcad.exe which again started the activation wizard and then accepted the activation key. I remember worrying that the request code might have somehow picked up the volume serial from the CD drive instead of the hard drive, but that fear was laid to rest when the activation created a C_DILLA folder on C:\ of the XPM side. But still the setup program will only run on the W7 side, and the activation key is under XPM. The workaround was to copy the program files from the CD into the XPM program file folder, and run the regtool.exe [register components] to get Mathcad 11 working under XPM.
service release updates
I then tried to run the service release updates to get from 11.0 to 11.1 and then to 11.2a. These execs (like the CD setup program) would not run on the XPM side. However, they did run just fine on the W7 side. Run in this order:
MC11WorkProgSPA.exe
MC11WorkDocSPA.exe
MC11WorkProgGOLDSPASP1.exe
MC11WorkDocGOLDSPASP1.exe
MC11WorkProgSP2A.EXE
MC11WorkDocSP2A.exe
Not sure if you really need the first two (PTC does not include them in download page).
Then I copied the whole now-updated-to-11.2a mathcad program file directory from the W7 side into the XPM program files directory, then ran regtool.exe [register components] from the new XPM program files mathcad folder, to get v11.2a running in XPM.
ebooks
Finally, the CDs to add e-books (extension packs) work fine to install on the XPM side (unlike the M11 setup CD or the service releases). The one exception was a corrupted handbook file for the solving and optimization pack which gave the error "This handbook version is too low to be displayed". I got that to work by saving these lines in a file named SOLVE.HBK and placing that in the HANDBOOK folder, to replace the corrupted solve.hbk file.
; Solving and Optimization Extension Pack
;
.version 8
.titleSolve
;
splash splash.mcd : Welcome to Solving And Optimization
toc toc.mcd
This is just a workaround, Mono Zeftel worked on the original solve book and can maybe provide the correct solve.hbk file ?
best regards,
Mo
