Using special characters in your installation folder name? Read this!

- July 29, 2017 at 12:45 am
  
  pgl
  Ansys Employee
  
  My ANSYS Student or AIM Student product fails to launch after installation - I'm using folders/paths with special characters (&,@,^, arabic characters or symbols).
- September 15, 2017 at 8:44 pm
  
  pgl
  Ansys Employee
  
  If the ANSYS Student or AIM Student product fails to launch after installation then one of the possible causes is that the product download was extracted into a path with special characters (&,@,^, arabic characters or symbols). When special characters are involved, the .net framework doesn't install during the Student Product installation.
  
  Workaround: Install the products to a different folder name that doesn't use special characters.
  
  Note that a similar issue can occur when you PC's username has special characters- If you share your PC, avoid using special characters, so for example "paul&jane" wouldn't be a good choice.

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