Thank you very much for all who's been contributing so great to engineering community in this forum.
I have finally installed and run ETAP 11 in my laptop (Win 7 Home Premium 64-bit) successfully, again thank you for all the explanations and guides found all over this thread. In this post I will try to re-enact the path I took to install ETAP in my laptop, off course I just reorganized all of the infos found in all over this thread, much credits go to fx007, fperea, manuel_cv, surgeArrester, pushead, raj, and all who has been actively contributing to this thread:
1. First things first, make sure you have installed :
- A software to mount virtual DVD drive for .iso files such as Daemon, Alcohol120%, ultraiso, etc
- WinRar to extract the ETAP Installation iso file from the archive
2. Download links for ETAP .iso installation files:
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For part 1-16, each file is 97.657 KB in size, whereas part 17 size is 89.397 KB --> after download each .rar file, make sure to open it with WinRar to check if your downloaded file is not corrupted (WinRar opens without any warning/alert message)
3. Extract the archive using the password:
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4. All those files will merge into single .iso file. Before proceeding to install, you must first create a virtual ECP Port:
Right Click My Computer --> Properties --> Device Manager --> Ports (COM & LPT) --> in the Action Tab, click “Add legacy hardware” --> click Next --> choose "Install hardware manually (Advanced)” --> Choose Ports (COM & LPT) --> Click Next --> Choose Manufacturer : (Standard), Model : ECP Printer Port --> click Next --> Finish --> Right click on new ECP Port --> on the "Port Setting" tab, Change setting to Never use an interrupt, check Enable legacy Plug and Play, and select LPT1 --> on the "Resources" tab, uncheck Use automatic setting --> click Change Setting --> input 03BC - 03BE for I/O Range
This I/O range will initially conflict with existing PCI Bus on some hardware, if yes just ignore it and proceed to restart your computer, the BIOS will take care of it
5. And dont forget to download this Link also, this contains the -C******-c-k- files for ETAP 11:
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You can extract it now or later
6. Turn off/temporarily disable your antivirus and internet connection and go back to your extracted ETAP .iso file, Mount it with your preferred software (Daemon, Alcohol, or anything), and Run ETAP Installer --> Choose to install ETAP 11.0.0 and wait until they finish and close the installer
7. Open Control Panel --> Security and System --> Administative tools --> Services, stop Etaps Lic Mgr service
8. Look back to your donwloaded rar files from no.5, extract them now and Copy *.dll and *.exe files to the C:\Program Files\Operation Technology Inc\Etap License Manager 1100\ --> overwrite all
9. Start "Etaps Lic Mngr" service again.
10. Change your computer's date and time setting to sometime before 20 April 2014, lets just pick 1 April 2014, leave the time setting as is
11. Start ETAPS.exe, if anything is okey it will ask for an activation code. Use this code below:
Z@8cUuS5w#nytVgCfvvccA%tDDu4jD6aNb?K
12. If there's a message telling code is invalid, close ETAP and delete a small file called ETAPS.lck located in ETAP 11 folder (mine is located in C:\ETAP 1100\)
13. Run ETAPS.exe again, it should work now!!!
14. Before tempted to proceeding to use this software, close ETAP again
15. Use Winrar to archive "ETAPS.lck" file, rename the file to "etaps.lck.rar" and store it in ETAP folder C:\ETAP 1100\
And DON'T delete the existing etaps.lck files, just leave it be
Now the next procedures are meant only for "fooling" the ETAP license manager into thinking that it is started before 20 April 2014 to prevent from the License Manager giving you "Activation Code is Expired" message, but fortunately this checkpoint is ONLY required during first startup, after ETAP is "fooled" and the program is already running in idle, we can change back the date into actual current date again so the report we generate from ETAP studies can have the correct date and time --> therefore I pretty much agree with manuel_cv and prefer to use RunAsDate method since it has the option to "Return to current date and time" after a defined amount of time --> how many seconds you need for the initial startup of ETAP, because after that initial program startup, ETAP License will ignore the date and time --> exactly as confirmed above by fx007 and manuel_cv
16. Download RunAsDate and extract it to your ETAP folder, normally C:\ETAP 1100
17. Change your computer date back to the actual current date
18. Open a blank Notepad file and copy the next lines:
@ ECHO OFF
cd C:\ETAP 1100
"C:\Program Files\WinRAR\UnRAR.exe" e -o+ "C:\ETAP 1100\etaps.lck.rar"
"C:\ETAP 1100\RunAsDate.exe" /movetime /returntime 30 01\04\2014 21:00:00 "C:\ETAP 1100\ETAPS.EXE"
exit
19. Change the second line to your the ETAP 11 directory if you installed it to a different directory
20. Change Winrar directory if needed --> mine is winrar 64-bit, for users with Win 64-bit but using winrar 32-bit, the winrar unrar command is usually at "C:\Program Files (x86)\WinRAR\UnRAR.exe"
20a. UnRAR.exe is winrar CMD application to extract files. Option "e" is for extract. Option "-o+" is for overwrite destiny file
20b. Change the directory of etaps.lck.rar depending on your ETAP installation directory above
21. 4th line is RunAsDate command syntax, with "/movetime" the 30 min warning no longer appears, and with "/returntime 30" RunAsDate returns ETAP to the actual date after 30seconds of Startup Initialisation, so your reports can have the correct date after you generate it. If your computer is rather slow, with startup time probably taking more than 30 sec, you can just change it with, lets say "/returntime 60", so it returns to actual date after 60s, it is all up to you.
22. Save tha notepad file with any name but the extension (after .) *must* be .bat . To do this use Notepad and Save As command at File menu. When window appears change "Save as type" from .txt to "AllTypes". After that the file could be named, say, "Run_ETAP.bat" and save it to your desktop
23. You can enable your antivirus and internet connection again, Run ETAP by double-clicking the .bat file "Run_ETAP.bat" you placed earlier in desktop from step no.22, ETAP 11 at your service
Hopefully this post helps. Thank you for all friends and generous kind people in this forum.
Salam
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Originally Posted by fr.wardana
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