Pro/DESKTOP 8.0 and Windows 8? PLEASE HELP ME!

[tom_01997]

Hi guys, I'm new here.

 

I had pro/desktop 8 running fine on my windows 7 laptop, but just can't seem to have it running on my windows 8 machine. I installed it with admin permissions and windows xp sp3 compatibility and run it just the same, but it still throws a tantrum and closes when I try to draw a simple rectangle! I took a screengrab of the errors that sometimes, but not always come up:

 

 

I would really like to have this running on my system - it would help massively with my schoolwork!

 

Thanks in advance, Tom

[5tu]

Hi Tom

 

Pro Desktop has now been superseded by Creo Parametric Academic Edition which you are able to get for free as a student.

 

http://www.ptc.com/company/community/download/

 

However, someone in the PTC forums says they have got Pro Desktop to run on Windows 8 by doing the following....

 

We are running on Windows 7. Is this a permissions problem? We had the same problem with a user account. The application worked fine for the administrator account which had been used to install the software. I changed permissions for All Users on the installation directory and now the software works ok for the user too.

 

http://communities.ptc.com/thread/36508

 

Hope this helps

 

Stuart

Edited September 1, 2013 by gybe78

[free780]

Check appdata and the virtual store. Its proably uac redirecting the writes to C:\ program files (x86) . Give users modify rights. You may have to disable uac folder virtualisation via gpo.

[tom_01997]

Thanks very much Stuart. It now works perfectly. Just for the record, and for anyone else having problems, open pro/desktop in compatibility mode for windows XP sp3 and as an administrator, go to Tools/Options/Performance and check the box for Disable hardware graphics acceleration (slower). Again, thank you very much!

[ctstone]

Hi Stuart, this doesn't seem to work on Windows 10. Do you have any ideas for that?

Charlie

[Maz]

On ours we need to run regserver to make it work - might be an option to try.

 

"C:\Program Files (x86)\PTC\ProDESKTOP 8.0\Program\ProD.exe" /regserver

"C:\Program Files\PTC\ProDESKTOP 8.0\Program\ProD.exe" /regserver

[PyROm]

Here we just run it once as administrator (doesn't need to be in compatibility mode) then it will run as a normal user fine after that, for all user.