s5 installation

dear all

i have installed S5 software in my laptop(win 7 professional 32bit) but after installation i could not able to find any shortcut not on desktop or in ALL PROGRAM..

PLEASE HELP ME OUT TO RUN THIS SOFTWARE ..

YOUR SUGGESTIONS ARE APPRECIATED ..

THANKS ...

Hello veer;

Do you mean Siemens Step 5 software? and which version, the latest is v7.3, to my knowledge.

Please study the table in this document:

Which version of STEP 5 is compatible with which MS Windows operating system?

And you had best start thinking of a VMware installation running a different OS...

Hope this helps,

Daniel Chartier

dchartier

Do you mean Siemens Step 5 software? and which version, the latest is v7.3, to my knowledge.

The last version of STEP5 is V7.23 and HF2.

Windows XP SP3 is the latest Windows OS.

Edit:

STEP 5 V7.23 + HF1                                           Edition 06/2004
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Product Information:
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The product information can be read without installing the product. Open
the Readme.wri file in the STEP 5 folder on the CD ROM STEP 5.

Installation:
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You can install the product under MS-DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 95/98/ME or
Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 and Windows XP/XP-Prof. For a more detailed
description of the installation procedure, refer to 'INSTALLATION' in the
Product Information.

Installing from the CD-ROM:
Select your CD-ROM drive and navigate to the
lw:\STEP5\STEP5.INS directory.
Double-click INSTALL.EXE.

hello daniel

thanks for your reply 

actually i have installed SIMATIC S5 STEP 5/ST V 6.65 software over windows 7 32bit , but it was not working i found somewhere it can be run on window 7 ...

that is i am asking how to make possible 

Hello veer;

You have seen the official document from Siemens detailing the versions of Windows that support various versions of Step 5. You saw that in that list v6.65 is not even compatible with Windows 95. Acually, you need a versionn of DOS (the last version I worked with was v6,21) to run Step 5 v6.65.

There is very little information on those old versions of Step 5, even on the Siemens Product Support site. I have found one in French, if you cannot understand it just search for the number of references to DOS in the text, you should have an idea of the close relationship between DOS and Step 5 v6.65.

https://cache.industry.siemens.com/dl/files/806/9830806/att_31901/v1/STEP5__f.pdf

I have extracted a screenshot from the document, it shows the file command structure for Step 5 v6.65, and it shows mostly DOS directories and commands; it also touches on PCP/M, which was the original OS Step 5 was built on.

There is a very great possibility that  DOS program cannot run correctly under Windows 7. Even f you could get it to install correctly, I doubt it would run in a Command Prompt window and connect to a PLC ; there are no COMx port on your PC, these days, and a DOS software needs special drivers (hard to locate them these days) to install USB communications... There are multiple problems to fix, even with a good VMware setup, before this version of Step 5 runs smoothly..

Hope this helps,

Daniel Chartier