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LTSpice won't work on my brand new windows 11 pro machine

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The user reports LTSpice not starting on a new Windows 11 Pro machine, despite successful installation and updates. The issue persists even after trying the 24.1.10 test version and running msiexec with verbose logging. The user's machine is not managed by an IT department, does not use OneDrive, and has an Intel Core Ultra 7 265 CPU and 16 GB RAM. The support engineer suggests sharing the verbose log file from the msiexec command to help diagnose the problem.
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Category: Software
Product Number: LTspice
Software Version: LTSpice 26.0.1.0

Hi LTSpice won't work on my brand new windows 11 pro machine. Program installs correctly and when I select LTspice updates it works and says "up to date" but when I try to start it even using "run as administrator nothing happens and I get no error message at all. Checking on Task manager there is no LTSpice active or even running in the background it's as if it just doesn't start or crashes upon start with no error messages.

 I tried downloading regular LTSpice for windows 11 and even the one at https://LTspice.analog.com/download/24.1.10_test/LTspice64.msi instaling then running msiexec /i "<Path to>\LTspice64.msi" /L*v "<Path to>\MyAppInstall.log etc all to no avail. Ironically we purchased this 5.3GHz 18 core latest and greatest mostly for LTSpice which is the only app that won't work. We have downloaded other apps like Altium and acrobat reader, Google Chrome, Firefox and they all work flawlessly so it's definitely an LTSpice coding issue. Have spent many hours on this and so have the HP software experts.

We are an ADI design partner and really need some support here thanks. Best Steve Smith

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  • Hi Mike, we tried both with and without /l*V at the end, even had my IT guy working on it. In both cases we got the same pop up window below and no install

    C:\Users\Steve\Downloads>msiexec /i "C:\Steve\Downloads\LTspice64.msi /L*v" C:\Steve\Downloads\MyAppInstall.log

    C:\Users\Steve\Downloads>msiexec /i "C:\Steve\Downloads\LTspice64.msi /L*v" C:\Steve\Downloads\MyAppInstall.log /L*v

    But in both cases it doesn't install and gives the pop-up below. Best Steve

  •  Same for me. No idea how to run the installer from commandline in a background/quiet mode without getting that popup.

    Would be crucial for my organisation too..

  • Hi  ,  ,

    C:\Users\Steve\Downloads>msiexec /i "C:\Steve\Downloads\LTspice64.msi /L*v" C:\Steve\Downloads\MyAppInstall.log

    C:\Users\Steve\Downloads>msiexec /i "C:\Steve\Downloads\LTspice64.msi /L*v" C:\Steve\Downloads\MyAppInstall.log /L*v

    Sorry for the delay in getting back to your. Both of these commands have the same problem. The L*V is part of the path (namely, within the quotes); it should not be.

    The command below should work for  .  , adjust the paths to match your setup.

    msiexec /i "C:\Steve\Downloads\LTspice64.msi" /L*V "C:\Steve\Downloads\MyAppInstall.log

    mike

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  • Hi  ,  ,

    C:\Users\Steve\Downloads>msiexec /i "C:\Steve\Downloads\LTspice64.msi /L*v" C:\Steve\Downloads\MyAppInstall.log

    C:\Users\Steve\Downloads>msiexec /i "C:\Steve\Downloads\LTspice64.msi /L*v" C:\Steve\Downloads\MyAppInstall.log /L*v

    Sorry for the delay in getting back to your. Both of these commands have the same problem. The L*V is part of the path (namely, within the quotes); it should not be.

    The command below should work for  .  , adjust the paths to match your setup.

    msiexec /i "C:\Steve\Downloads\LTspice64.msi" /L*V "C:\Steve\Downloads\MyAppInstall.log

    mike

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