Installation of matlab 7.8 fails on pc 64 bit

Hello, the installation of matlab 7.8 student version fails on my pc windows 7, 64 bit. Please give me support urgently! Thanks F. Insua

[Kaustubha Govind]

Please contact MathWorks Installation Support for help. Note that this is a user forum, not s support forum.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

All existing Student Version of MATLAB are 32 bit products. I think I read somewhere that the Student Versions are not officially supported for installation on 64 bit systems (except the Mac OS-X version), but that the R2011a version would be expected to work.

R2009a is the first Student Version that supported Windows 7 at all; a number of people had trouble installing R2009a Student Version on Windows 7.

[Jan]

The 32 bit version does not run in the "Program Files (x86)" path. Perhaps the parenthesis confuse the path parser. I've created a space free "ProgramFiles_x86" folder for such sensitive programs.