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by maziar

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I was trying to install the Rational Rose. I was trying several times to install this programm, but every time I got the follwoing error message:

This is the error message I got:

You are attempting to install on an unsupported operating system. We recommend that you install on a supported system.
Wee your Rationa product's Release Notes for a complete list of supported operating systems and service packs.

This is the way I clicked through the setup wizard:

-Double click on setup software (Rational Rose (C82XPML) file version 2003.06.15 (4.1.100.1332))
1. Product selection--> Rational Rose Enterprise Edition
2. Deployment Methode ---> Desktop installation from CD image
3. After data extraction and preparing to install I get this error message:

I tried also to select Windows 98 from the compatibility mode in program properties under compatibility and it didnt help.
My computer is running on Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition version 2002 with Service Pack 2 and this is the original system software that I got with my Toshiba Laptop M 3-35X S1 and I have 512 MB of ram.

I tried to check for possible running software that could cause this error like oracle and norton and I disabled them all.

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by markus.nippa

Though directly after a new installation of Windows Home XP SP2 I got the same Problem.
If you have solved it, please let me know.

by maksym.shevchenko

You can temporary switch your system type from Home to Pro edition.
Run regedit from Start->Run
Foreach HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSetXXX
find Control\ProductOptions subkey in this ControlSet
delete key ProductSuite with Personal value
add key "Brand" with DWORD value 0x0000
Reboot your computer. During first boot press F8 and select "Last Known Good Configuration". From now you got WinXP Professional Edition.
Now you can install Rational Rose.
To switch back to Home Edition after installation you can delete Brand keys and add ProductSuit back, reboot, F8, "Last Known...".

Where is my beer? ;o)

by jsantander2

After fighting with the same problem... O believe I managed to solve it.

I installed Rational Rose Enterprise 2003 on XP Home SP2. How? I looked into the debug information of the installer... and in despair googled for a variable that was apparently being set (RSWINXPHOME, promising, doesn't it).... This pointed me to some pages in japanese where this variable was shown as part of a condition:

(VersionNT AND (NOT RSWINXPHOME))OR (DISABLE_PLATFORM_BLOCKS = 1)

Looked like the condition to not fail:
so I run
msiexec.exe /l*vx inst.log /i Rose.msi /c DISABLE_PLATFORM_BLOCKS=1

... and it worked (so far).

BTW: When I tried the suggestion to modify the registry and received a threatening warning about violating the end user agreement...

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