Compatibility of Pro E 5 with Windows 8.1

[mpapreja]

Is pro e 5 compatible with windows 8.1? Clicking on setup file does not show up anything!!

Manish Papreja

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[Mahesh_Sharma]

Manish,

Wildfire 5.0 is not supported on Windows 8.1, Creo 2.0 M100 and later are supported on Windows 8.1. For Wildfire 5.0 try executing setup.exe using > Right Click > Run an admin, not sure it will start installation or not, however you can make a trial.

[MartinHanak]

Manish,

you can copy Wildfire 5.0 installation from another PC to Windows 8.1 PC and test if it runs.

Martin Hanak

[mpapreja]

Dear Martin,

Thanks for the suggestion. Should be a good solution if it works but I don't know how to copy installation from one pc to another. I have another PC having Windows 7 32 bit where wildifire 5. is working fine and my target PC is having windows 8.1 64 bit. Could u please guide me in trying the suggested option?

Manish

[MartinHanak]

Manish,

Dear Martin,
Thanks for the suggestion.
Should be a good solution if it works but I don't know
how to copy installation from one pc to another.
I have another PC having Windows 7 32 bit where wildifire 5. 
is working fine and my target PC is having windows 8.1 64 bit. 
Could u please guide me in trying the suggested option?
Manish

How to ProE WF5 installation from W7 to W8.1:

1. W7 - let's assume that ProE WF5 installation directory is C:\PTC\proeWildfire5
2. W8.1 - copy C:\PTC\proeWildfire5 directory from W7 to get C:\PTC\proeWildfire5 in W8.1
3. W8.1 - modify parametric.psf in ProE WF5 installation bin subdirectory - replace %PRO_MACHINE_TYPE% with i486_nt
4. run proe.exe from ProE WF5 installation bin subdirectory

Martin Hanak