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Installing Civil 3d 2015 oin Windows 10

pgosbee
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Installing Civil 3d 2015 oin Windows 10

pgosbee
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I tried to install Civil 3d 2015 on windows 10 and the installation keeps on asking for .net 4.5, which windows 10 does not have and I can't get it because windows 10 has .net 4.6. I tried to remove the .net prerequisits from the setup.ini and it still is looking for the .net 4.5

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michael_robertson
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Here's what worked form me. Didn't have to change the setup.ini files.

 

Open the registry editor.

Take ownership of: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP\v4\Client (note: v4 NOT v4.0)

          right click on the client key

          select permissions

          press the "Advanced" button

          click the "change" link next to owner

          enter your userid

          OK out of all the permissions dialogs

Save the value of the “Version” key off (on Win10 build 10162 the value was 4.6.00079)

Change the value of the “Version” key to “4.5” and save

Leave the registry editor open

Install Civil 3D 2015

In the registry editor, change the “Version” key back to the saved off number and save.

Mike Robertson
FL. Dept. of Transportation
CADD Applications Developer

Anonymous
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Ive followed all these steps exactly ( At least I'm pretty sure I have), and when I try to apply the 4.5 change to "Version" I get error "Cannot edit Version: Error writing the value's new contents."

 

Do you have any suggestions? Do I need to change my access privilege somehow? 

 

I am the admin user for my laptop.

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Anonymous
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Ive efigured it out. I needed to click allow full control in the permissions tab. Thanks for the help

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pgosbee
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I had the same problem myself. You need to set the permissions in both the client key and the version sub key


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DWS44
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Thanks for the responses in this post...was a big help getting up and running on Win10!
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Anonymous
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I do all those steps and the error continue, i change the version number and when i try to instalan again the error apear again. Did you know why could be?

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igi_pop
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It's not just windows 10, same on win 7.

I really don't understand the installer or who created it, why the h**l won't it install if you have a newer version? and the .NET states that newer ones "include" or "cover" the older ones. I've recently lost hours, AGAIN, because of that weirdness.

Better yet, why is the required .NET installation removed from Civil's instalation?

 

Sheesh

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michael_robertson
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Better yet, why is the required .NET installation removed from Civil's installation?

Because Microsoft blocks installation of .NET from distributed installers, those installers could be modified to carry malicious code. So you have to either download it from Microsoft source or install from a Microsoft installation disk.

Mike Robertson
FL. Dept. of Transportation
CADD Applications Developer

igi_pop
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@michael_robertson wrote:

Better yet, why is the required .NET installation removed from Civil's installation?

Because Microsoft blocks installation of .NET from distributed installers, those installers could be modified to carry malicious code. So you have to either download it from Microsoft source or install from a Microsoft installation disk.


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Anonymous
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There it's a fix for this problem. If you search on autodesk page you will find it. If I remember it right, you replace 3 or 4 files in the installation package files and then it installs without any problem.
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