Article - CS28227
How does Creo Parametric retrieve config options at startup
Modified: 10-Sep-2026
Applies To
- Pro/ENGINEER and Creo Elements/Pro Wildfire to Wildfire 5.0
- Creo Parametric 1.0 to 13.4
Description
- How does Creo retrieve config.pro options at startup
- How to share one config.pro between multiple clients
- Where can config.pro files be placed to be read automatically
- What folders are configuration option files loaded from
- Which directories will be looked in for config.pro files on startup
- Where does Creo Parametric look for configuration files
- How configuration options are set
- How to specify a location for the config.pro file
- Information about location of config.pro file
- Config.pro file not read from the location specified in %homedrive%%homepath%
- Modified config.pro file doesn't work once re-starting Creo Parametric
- Unable to load configuration options from config.pro file
- User has 3 config.pro files to load; however, only 2 are loaded in Creo
- In which sequence/order the config.pro file is read
- Need to better understand where config.pro file should be placed and how the precedence works
- Unable to retain the config option set value
- Config.pro does not load from the startup directory but loads correctly from the default directory
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