April 11, 2023 at 1:25 pm
George Karnos
Ansys Employee

Do you have a virus protection software or firewall software enabled
that may be blocking the communication between programs?

What happens if you shut doan all ANSYS Programs and then 
rename the following directory:
%APPDATA%\Ansys\v232
to:
%APPDATA%\Ansys\v232.old

Then try to run again.