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Why thank you for such a kind comment.
First... Creo Elements Direct Express is not Creo. It's not even in the same ballpark as Creo. This product is direct modeling which is not what 99% of the people in this community work with.
There is a community on here specifically dedicated to Direct Modeling. It's located at the link provided HERE
Of course you already know this because you posted a response to someone else's message in that forum. Might I add that you were equally charming in that other post, too. You complained that a link didn't work and that apparently we're all part of one big "useless outfit". See below to refresh your memory. Then take a look at the date of the message you were replying to and note over three years old. Perhaps next time you might try clicking on a link 8, 9, or even 10 years old and then complain, gripe, and hurl a few insults when it doesn't work.
Look dude... people here answer questions if they have knowledge of the problem you're having. When no one has an answer, no one replies. But with amazing frequency people do answer questions and honestly try to help each other. We're not paid to sit here and provide this service. Most people here are professionals with real jobs, deadlines, and bosses. We have mortgages, families, and more than enough BS to put up with at work and at home that we don't need to come here where we're volunteering our assistance only to be insulted for it.
So... for reference, perhaps you might heed the following advice the next time you have a question:
- Post your question in the appropriate section
- Be patient... this community is driven by colleagues with plenty of other responsibilities and we're donating our time to help you
- Try not to act like the south end of a north bound horse
Even after all this... I still went ahead and tried to come up with a solution to your problem.
I went ahead and downloaded Creo Elements/Direct Modeling Express 4.0 and installed it. The application worked just fine for me on my XP Professional 64-Bit SP3 laptop. I did see one place where you could've picked up this error. When you first installed the software, you're asked to provide an email address and a password. This email address/password should be for your ptc.com account. If you've mis-entered this information or if you do not have a PTC.COM account, your license will fail.
I'm looking through the installed files to see if I can figure out where the license file is kept. If I can find it, maybe that will yield clues to why the failure is happening. I'll keep looking. I see you've already tried re-installing... can you also check that the email address and password work on PTC.COM?
I'm going to uninstall and re-install and try one of the other options to see how the application behaves. I'll work on this and write back.
After some additional searching, I found the keys in the regitry which are required before the product will activate. The series of keys is located here:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\CoCreate\OneSpaceModelingPE
If you mess up the activation screen, fail to register, or mis-type your password on the screen below...
You will see this screen...
If you go to the registry key above, delete the entries, and then re-launch the application, you can try again. If you do not have access to write to that registry key location, you will also receive the "No Valid License" message.
This is the best I've got to address the problem. Remove those keys and try re-registering. If you cannot write to that registry location, it doesn't matter how many times you re-register, the launch will fail.
Try these and let us know what happens.
