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While Autodesk has not announced any support for any previously shipped products on Windows Vista at the time of this writing, Avatech has found a method that may allow users to run in an unsupported mode.

Avatech's National Support Center recently had a support call were the client was trying to install Inventor 11 onto Windows Vista (32-bit). The problem was that they were receiving an “Unsupported Operating System…” error.

By browsing to x:\bin\acadfeui\inventor\ {where x: is the DVD-ROM Drive} and right-clicking the setup.exe file, they were able to select ‘Run as Administrator’ and it installed fine. The same thing was needed to install Mechanical Desktop 2007, but applied to the x:\bin\acadfeui\mdt\setup.exe file.

This seemed to work for both installs. The machine was rebooted and when they double-clicked the icons, both applications launched fine.

Hope This Helps!

Eric