1. Installing STEP 7 V5.4 and WinCC flexible Chinese requires the operating system of the computer to be Chinese Windows XP Professional (Professional Edition). It cannot be installed under the operating system of Windows XP Home Edition (Home Edition). 2. STEP 7 V5.4 requires a computer with at least 512MB of memory and WinCC flexible requires at least 1GB of memory. 3. The author has encountered the situation that the simulation software plcSIM of the S7-300/400 cannot be opened after installation. The reason is related to the Windows XP operating system used. In this case, you need to switch to another XP operating system. 4. You can copy STEP 7 to your hard drive before installing it. However, if the name of each folder in which STEP 7 is saved contains Chinese, the prompt message “no ssf files found†will appear during installation, and the software cannot be installed. The Chinese in the folder name should be deleted at this time. 5. You should first install STEP 7 and then install WinCC and WinCC flexible. If the software is not installed in the above order, Siemens' Totally Integrated Automation function cannot be implemented. 6. When installing the software, "Please restart Windows before installing new programs" may appear, or restart Windows before installing a new program, or other similar information. If you restart the computer and then install the software, or the above information, it may be because of the role of anti-virus software (such as 360 security guards), the Windows operating system has registered one or more write-protected files to prevent deletion or rename. The solution is as follows: Execute the Windows menu command "Start" → "Run", enter "regedit" in the "Run" dialog box that appears, click the "OK" button to open the Registry Editor. If there is "PendingFileRenameOperations" in the registry folder "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control \Session Manager", delete it and you can install the software. It is possible to do the same for every software installed. 7. Ways to extend the life of the software When you open the software of Siemens for the first time, select the software name in the software list of the dialog box that appears, click the "Activate" button, activate the trial license key with a period of 14 days, and you cannot uninstall and reinstall the software after expiration. The method regains the 14-day expiration date. If you do not have a license key, you can use the following method to solve the software usage time limit problem: After installing the software, use Ghost to back up the computer's C drive. After the trial license expires, the C drive is restored with Ghost and the backup file, and the software can obtain a valid use period of 14 days. Insulation Acrylic Fiberglass Sleeve Insulation Acrylic Fiberglass Sleeve,Best Acrylic Coated Fiberglass Sleeving,Acrylic Fiberglass Sleeving,Insulation Acrylic Fiberglass Sleeving Longkou Libo Insulating Material Co.,Ltd. , https://www.liboinsulation.com