How To Renew PTC Creo Student Free License Expired After First year

After First Year Your Free PTC Creo Parametric Student License Will Expire Here is Method To Extend Your Free Student License After One Year

PTC is offering Free Creo parametric Versions 2.0, 3.0 for Free for all students for Educational purpose, But the license is limited to One year. So What will you do After first year of using the free student version. So here is a trick to enable Creo Student License after the expiration period. You can easily re-enable the free student license by following the below steps.
When your license expired While opening creo parametric you will see an error message like as follows

This means that your license has been expired and you have to purchase new license or re enable your student license again, now you can follow these steps

Delete all license files of PTC Creo from your computer. PTC Creo 3.0 and Creo 4.0 license files are stored in the directory C:\ProgramData\PTC\Licensing. Copy and paste this in your Windows Explorer to access the directory since this is a hidden folder. Now Delete all files from the directory

1. Check whether you configured a Student License or College/University Free License, if you don't know whether you created a student license or College License open creo parametric again and check the error message, in the license file path you will find either Student or K12 Student
   
2. The above mentioned License file name indicates you are using a Student Standard edition of Creo Parametric
3. Now you can reconfigure your licnese by running reconfigure.exe from C:\Program Files\PTC\Creo 3.0\M###\Parametric\bin where M### represents the build code or release of your software
   In most of the case you will not find the reconfigure.exe file in the directory, so you are unable find the file go to step 4
4. Now browse for your installation folder downloaded from PTC website, in the folder you will find setup.exe ,setup student.exe and setup-trial.exe open setup.exe by double clicking it
   
5. Now click on Reconfigure existing software and click Next
   
6. In the Simple License Entry product code field, enter the product code BK400407EDSTUDENTUNICL for University Student or BE400407EDSTUDENTEDK12 for Standard Student License for Creo 3.0 , BE410708EDSTUDENTEDK12 for Creo 4.0,  BE500806EDSTUDENTEDK12 for Creo 5.0 and then click Install Licensing
7. In the next step it asks for your email and password. type your email and password of PTC account and click login
8. You will see a success message after successfully login into your account and then click on Finish, Next and Install the products again from the Window and click on Finish. You are ready now

If you are still facing any difficulties in reconfiguring PTC creo 3.0 or 4.0 License files mention your issues in the comment section