How to disable InfoCenter

Here is a tip on how to disable InfoCenter in AutoCAD 2008.

It also works for 2009, just use replace 17.1 with 17.2 in the registry string.

http://otb.manusoft.com/2007/09/autocad-2008-slow-startup-fix.htm

just to make things extra easy, here it is in vlisp:

(vl-registry-write

 (strcat "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\"
     (vlax-product-key)
     "\\Applications\\InfoCenterAcConn"
 )
 "LOADCTRLS"
 0
)

Thank God for this tip. That damn thing gets annoying...

Thank for the tip.

Not to appear to be a moron, but where do you go to disable this function. I went to the info center, but didn't seem to find what I needed. Please try not to laugh at my ignorance!

Not to appear to be a moron' date=' but where do you go to disable this function. I went to the info center, but didn't seem to find what I needed. Please try not to laugh at my ignorance![/quote']

if you'll just paste the code i posted above in the commandline, it will turn it off for you.

I finally had a chance to try pasting in the code, but it came up with an error message. All I did was copy & paste into the commandline. What am I doing wrong?

I finally had a chance to try pasting in the code' date=' but it came up with an error message. All I did was copy & paste into the commandline. What am I doing wrong?[/quote']

probably missing a paren on paste. draw attachment into autocad and it will run.

hope this helps.

no comm center.lsp

Type (vl-load-com) in command line and try one more time. If it work write this expression to acaddoc.lsp file

Acaddoc.lsp

just to make things extra easy, here it is in vlisp:

 

(vl-registry-write

 (strcat "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\"
     (vlax-product-key)
     "\\Applications\\InfoCenterAcConn"
 )
 "LOADCTRLS"
 0
)

Nice Alan

I was looking for a way to stop the second command line from always popping up and by adding this little code it stopped...

Thanks all...

BTW: I googled to find this answer and found this thread. I love google...

For some reason this does not work on my machine. I tried that code in hopes that i can get some other code to work. I am actually trying to change a setting for the Cad manager Channel

(vl-registry-write
 (strcat "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\"
  (vlax-product-key)
  "\\CadManagerControl\\Infocenter")
 "EnableCadMgrChannel"
 1)

I was about give up after reading in the help file that its not possible. In the help file it states "Note: You cannot use vl-registry-write for HKEY_USERS or KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE."

I am running Win7 64bit, could this be an issue?