Download Setup.exe
Leigha Keplinger
Hello, I'm trying to upgrade to Creo 10. I received my license text files through email. I went to the software download page and got the latest version of Creo 10 (Version: 10-0-4-0) and downloaded the .zip file.
The problem I'm having is that the setup.exe file does not seem to work. When I double click or right click>run as administrator nothing ever happens and no installation window ever opens. However, when I go into Windows Task Manager I see a process called "PTC Installation Assistant" which is running. If I don't end that process I get an error when trying to re-run the setup.exe file which states "Please exit the already running installer or uninstaller first."
I was able to successfully run the "install_license_server.exe" and it recognized the license lm___.txt file and installed the license server successfully. That does not seem to help getting the setup.exe file to work. I'm running Windows 10 Enterprise.
2. I moved the install folder to my root directory on C:\ and tried running setup.exe from there without any luck either (apparently the pathway to the setup.exe file can cause issues if it has odd/international characters).
3. I've also tried downloading/running the "install from web" .exe file that PTC provides on their download page and that also fails to work with similar behavior (PTC Installation Assistant opens as a background process in task manager, but nothing happens).
Another odd/weird data point is that for whatever reason the setup-trial.exe file seems to work perfectly fine! However, obviously I do not want to install the trial software I want and paid for the full version. But I was wondering if there is perhaps a way to "convert" the trial install to the full package after the fact?
Luckily I was able to install Creo 10 with the help of PTC's customer tech support. My tech was able to email me some .xml files and a .bat file that ran them and did what he called their "silent installation." We think my corporate IT has various security systems running on my PC that I couldn't turn off or deactivate myself. Luckily running the silent install method seemed to circumvent whatever was blocking the install process from actually opening. I'm now up and running with Creo 10 and I've opened an IT ticket to try and get my Creo installation whitelisted from whatever was blocking it.
Yes, that pim folder is populated with those same .xml files on my machine as well. I deleted the pim folder to make sure and when I run setup.exe that pim folder gets created with all the same .xml files. I just don't ever see the Installation Assistant window pop up anywhere. It's a complete phantom it does not show up in task bar or minimized anywhere.
I've turned off windows defender, firewall protections, etc. with no change in behavior. Again the setup-trial.exe seems to bring up the install wizard just fine. Also it's not even like setup.exe is being blocked from opening or anything...task manager thinks setup.exe is opening/running just fine the process initiates and sits in the list idling just no physical window ever pops up.
I have always wondered about this. So many application setups have a zip file that you unzip, and in it are a bunch of files, among other things an exe and an msi. What is the difference? They are often even about the same size. I am never really sure which one to execute, sometimes I do the exe and sometimes the msi, and it usually works with either one. But does one of them do anything that the other doesn't do? And if not, isn't it kind of a waste having two files that does the same thing? Especially when thinking about download size, etc...
In the case where you have both exe and the msi the exe is just a loader for the msi. If you have an installation supporting multiple languages then the exe applies a language transform (mst) on the msi before installing.
You can consider the exe as a wrapper around the msi. The msi file may or may not be given separately. The reason why people give the msi file too is to facilitate a group policy installation (in a Windows Active Directory infrastructure) as you can only push down installations of msi files and not exes.
The actual installation is done in the MSI. As Prashast said, the exe is just a wrapper, but the reason for having the exe, is that an exe is allways possible to run. If the user do not have MS Installer installed on the computer, or his version of MS Installer is older than the version required by your installation, then the MSI file is not possible to run.
The exe provides automatic installation of MS Installer (including some question to the user if he/she wants to do this) before running the MSI file. In most cases, the install packages needed for Microsoft Installer is included inside the setup.exe, or sometimes it is just the prerequisites check with a link to download the installation from Microsoft.
I've created my first setup project using Visual Studio 2010. I've noticed that when I build the setup project it generates an MSI installer file and a setup.exe executable. However, I seem to be able to just right click on the MSI file and choose install to install my application rather than running setup.exe.
Does the setup.exe file that is generated do anything other than just fire up the MSI file? When distributing my application can I just provide the MSI file rather than the MSI file and the setup.exe file?
Kristopher Johnson is correct about the older machines, but it also does something else. When you are setting up the installer you can set dependencies and locations to download those dependencies. The Setup.exe does those dependency checks and launches the other MSI files in to install them. This is most often used to make sure Windows has the correct version of .NET or the C++ runtime installed.
Many (most?) users are accustomed to running the "SETUP" program to install something. That's why it's there. It's a good idea to provide it, unless you are certain that only technically knowledgeable users will be installing your application.
SETUP.EXE is also useful if somebody tries to install on an older version of Windows which doesn't have support for MSI files. In that case, it displays some sort of "You cannot install this program on this version of Windows" error message.
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The solution:Make sure there are no white-spaces in your folder name (or possible in the path in general, haven't checked that, but it makes sense).Once you renamed the folder to a white-space-less name, you can just run setup.exe directly from that folder.
Be patient, as the installation window will also pop up, and be patient again because my computer then after about a minute poped up with another window asking me if I wanted to allow a service to start (which you will have to allow).
I tried installing Oracle Database 19c for the Windows x64 version, you have to rename the folder containing no whitespaces and put it in the root folder (C:/ or D:/) drive.Try starting the setup again, a command prompt will open and after some mins, the setup will start.
For the past 2 months everytime I connect online, setup.exe loads in the background and proceeds to destroy my data usage allotment forcing me to work at 2x speeds for the rest of the billing cycle. Task Manager does not 'see' it and I have automatic synch turned off in my profile settings. I know it's an Adobe program because Windows 10 displays it in its built in App Usage Utility with a very clear Adobe icon logo.
I understand your suggestions. One point. If by "uninstall every cc app" you mean specific applications like Photoshop and Lightroom then I hope this thread remains open until August 6. Since setup.exe has shredded my data usage, I can't tie up my computer for the amount of time needed to install all the cc apps at 2x speed and must wait until then to regain 4g speed.
There are many apps called setup.exe, probably millions of them. Adobe will have a lot. So, are you able to tell which specific one it is? Task manager does see all apps if you tell it to. Possibly it reports a different name, so look for apps using a lot of network.
Thanks for any insight. I am in the process of setting up our PROD and test environments for my company. Every so often I need to restore one of the environments from backup. For that I need to use the repository snapshot manager and the QLIKSense setup .exe. The problem is that some one on my team keeps removing the setup exe. So I need to download it again. The real problem is that I can never find the download for QLIK sense server on the QLIK site. I keep going to the download page and filling out the questionaire and it keeps giving me Qlik_Sense_Desktop_setup.exe. IN particular I am looking for 3.2
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