Article - CS171124
How to reconfigure Creo Parametric without using reconfigure.exe
Modified: 24-Nov-2025
Applies To
- Creo Parametric 1.0 to 12.4
- Pro/ENGINEER and Creo Elements/Pro Wildfire 2.0 to Wildfire 5.0
Description
- How to re-configure without using ptcsetup.bat/reconfigure.exe
- How to edit the *.psf to use specific license
- How to update server/license information for the existing installation without re-configuring the application
- Where is the *.psf file located
- How to modify server information manually
- Does the *.psf need to be modified if the feature name of the base license has been updated
- How to modify the *.psf file to add the new feature name so that the software uses the new feature name licenses
- Where to find server & license feature information in the existing installation
- User is prompted to enter login credentials while reconfiguring application
- Unable to update Creo using reconfigure.exe
- Not able to activate a license from File > Options > Floating Licenses
- We changed to a new license package with three license levels in the pool:
- Creo Design Essentials (T1)
- Creo Design Advanced Professional (T3)
- Creo Design Premium (T4)
- How to configure the environment to make the users check out T3 or T4 license when they need to use the features only available in T3 or T4
- How to configure Creo Parametric client without running reconfigure.exe after server's IP address is changed
- Installation and Configuration Guidance for Selecting License Server and Language in Creo
- Guidance required for installing and configuring Creo to enable selection of license server and software package
- Customer has two license servers, A and B
- License Server A contains software packages T1, T2, T5
- License Server B contains software packages T1, T5
- Requirement to select server, software package, and language (Chinese or English) upon launching Creo
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