topic Re: Revit 2021 Licensing using Internet Explorer 10 in Installation & Licensing Forum

Revit 2021 Licensing using Internet Explorer 10

dyp4f — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 07:19:08 GMT

Hi all. I have a Revit 2021 Student License. I have installed Revit 2021 on my Windows 7 PC and is running

pretty well (for my learning needs), but only as a trial because unfortunately I can't apply my License.

The problem is that Revit 2021 requires Internet Explorer 11 (just for the Licensing procedure) and it's actually

impossible for me to install IE11 on my Windows 7 system. You see, I only have Internet Explorer 10.

I have tried hard for weeks to accomplish that IE11 installation, as many other people over the Internet, and

despite my efforts and after having tried every kind of possible solutions and tricks or suggestions, it seems that

that simple task of installing a Microsoft program (IE11) is not feasible.

I have spent several weeks of futile trying, just to accomplish a 5 seconds procedure of Licensing via IE11 (!!)
After these 5 seconds of Licensing via IE11, I could actually even uninstall IE11, as I don't need it anymore for

browsing or anything else.

Does anyone has a clue or a suggestion to help me, about how could I manage to have a successful Revit 2021

Licensing by using the already installed Internet Explorer 10 ?

I thank you in advance.

P/S
1) Please, don't tell me to upgrade to Windows 10. I do really know this solution and I can't (wont) do that.

Something else please ?

2) Revit 2021 does work just fine in Windows 7. For obvious reasons that's not officially recommended,

but there is no real technical problem, except for that critical 5 seconds Licensing procedure with ie11.

Re: Revit 2021 Licensing using Internet Explorer 10

Lachlan-JWP — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 07:33:32 GMT

If you are having problems with the internet explorer installation, that's more of a microsoft issue.

If you don't have the installer, it is the first option when you search "Internet explorer 11".

Re: Revit 2021 Licensing using Internet Explorer 10

ennujozlagam — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 07:40:05 GMT

try windows fixit and see if helps. thanks

Re: Revit 2021 Licensing using Internet Explorer 10

dyp4f — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 08:18:46 GMT

I have tried not only "Windows fixit" but literally thousands of "tools", "solutions" and tricks. Everything is useless.

Thousands of people have the same problem, it's not only me. Let's not talk about IE on a Revit forum.

The only real solution may come not from MS, but from Autodesk: allowing Revit 2021 Licencing via IE10.

Re: Revit 2021 Licensing using Internet Explorer 10

dyp4f — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 08:30:45 GMT

Of course, here we don't discuss problems about MS programs. My point is how to achieve Revit 2021 Licensing,

bypassing the requirement for IE11. It's a question to Revit users, if someone knows something about a solution

to that specific Revit 2021 Licensing problem.

Re: Revit 2021 Licensing using Internet Explorer 10

leowarren34 — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 09:40:20 GMT

Hi @dyp4f,

Have you installed any of the Windows 7 service packs?

Re: Revit 2021 Licensing using Internet Explorer 10

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 11:11:03 GMT

@dyp4f wrote:
It's a question to Revit users, if someone knows something about a solution
to that specific Revit 2021 Licensing problem.

there isn’t one

that is why there are system requirements

Re: Revit 2021 Licensing using Internet Explorer 10

dyp4f — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 15:13:56 GMT

Ryan, because you may not know a solution doesn't mean that everybody else are also clueless. Maybe another user

knows something. That's why we make questions to the forum in general, and not to a person specifically.

There is no need to answer, if you know nothing on that matter more than the official "requirements".

If you read again my initial question text, you will see that Revit 2021 runs normally on Windows 7, despite the

official "requirements" statements. This is a fact, not a speculation made by me.

I am actually running Revit 2021 on my Windows 7 SP1 system, right now.

My question is not about if it runs or not, but if I can execute the License procedure via Internet Explorer 10.

Re: Revit 2021 Licensing using Internet Explorer 10

pendean — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 18:27:13 GMT

>>>...impossible for me to install IE11 on my Windows 7 system...<<<
No fix for Win7 unless Microsoft posts one, sorry.

>>>..despite the official "requirements" statements...<<<
They are there for a reason, this is one of them.

Sorry dude: enjoy the "I got it working on an unsupported OS" experience while it lasts.
WIn10 is still free if you know where to get it if you chose to "conform", I think this info is still valid https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/14/21065140/how-to-upgrade-microsoft-windows-7-10-free-os

Good Luck.

Re: Revit 2021 Licensing using Internet Explorer 10

dyp4f — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 15:34:59 GMT

After having trying hard for several days, I finally found the solution to the problem, as follows:

1) It seems that it's not possible to complete the Licensing using Internet Explorer 10, since the new Autodesk

procedure demands IE11. Nobody else in the forum showed a workaround for this, until now.

2) After resetting my Internet Explorer 10 to its default settings, I could finally install Internet Explorer 11.

After that, the Revit 2021 Licensing was an easy and quick automatic procedure.

The trick was to get rid of some erratic settings in Advance tab in Options of IE10. Those settings were

established a long time ago, to facilitate the installation of "Digital Sign Certificates" on my computer.

Resetting to default IE10 settings made the trick. Of course, I had previously installed all the relative KB

Updates, the latest Win7 SP1, and I ran the offline IE11 installer "as Administator" and having temporarily

disabled my Antivirus.