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ProE Student Edition and Win2k

ProE Student Edition and Win2k

ProE Student Edition and Win2k

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Hello,

I've recently upgraded from winME to win2k.  I have installed ProE Student Edition in Win2k.  Installation was a snap, however I cannot get ProE to run, when I double click on the ProE icon nothing happens, any suggestions.

Manster34

RE: ProE Student Edition and Win2k

Without amy additional information, it would be hard to troubleshoot this problem - however...

1.  ProE Student Edition usually requires the CD to be in the drive, but you would usually get an error message to this effect.
2.  I have noticed that PTC sometimes cuts corners in the development of Student Edition versions.  In the past, I have had to manually create working links to the correct batch files.  Browse to the ProE directory (usually c:\program files\proeXXXXX) and open the BIN directory.  Try double-clicking on the 'proe2000i2.bat' or 'proe2001.bat' file.  If this works, create a SHORTCUT to the batch file on your desktop.
3.  One last thing - it may be possible that your video card (on your home machine, I presume) may not support ProE.  A workaround is usually to manually create a config.pro file and place it in the TEXT directory (within the ProE installation dir) that contains a single line: GRAPHICS WIN32_GDI (assuming the startup process is even getting to this point).

Good Luck,
Recneps

RE: ProE Student Edition and Win2k

I had the same problem. The solution for my computer was changing the proe2001-stu.bat.

Original:

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
    set env4096=
    goto ptc_end
:postenv4096

changed to:

if NOT "%mc%" == "i486_nt" 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
    set env4096=
REM    goto ptc_end
:postenv4096

RE: ProE Student Edition and Win2k

right click the pro/E icon and click "properties", click on "memory", and make sure the "initial environment" is set to "4096". This fixed my start up problems.

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