Dormant Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 Hi, Installed Autodesk Building Design Suite 2013, all work besides AutoCAD 2013 Click on the icon to run it and a window flashes up saying "Please wait while windows configures AutoCAD 2013 - English" then disappears and nothing happens. Tried reinstalling already, also uninstalling and installing again, multiple reboots and still the same. Any ideas. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dadgad Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 How long did you give it to configure before throwing in the towel? Did you check your TASK MANAGER while it said it was configuring, to see what was going on backstage? When you uninstalled did you follow the Autodesk recommendations for uninstalling an Autodesk product? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dormant Posted April 27, 2012 Author Share Posted April 27, 2012 The configure lasts about quarter of a second then disappears from the screen. If I look in processes, i see the acad.exe pop up for like half a second when i run AutoCAD then is disappears. Sometimes it doesn;t show up when i click on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 What are your computer specs? Is this a 32-bit or 64-bit system? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dormant Posted April 30, 2012 Author Share Posted April 30, 2012 It is a 64 bit windows 7 ultimate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 When you installed AutoCAD 2013 did you temporarily disable your antivirus program? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dadgad Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 Count your blessings? Be careful with 2013, read the numerous posts on the forum regarding problems, some quite serious with 2013. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dormant Posted April 30, 2012 Author Share Posted April 30, 2012 Im not admin, but yer the antivirus would of been active when we installed the suite. Just strange that all the suite installed and worked accept autocad 2013. Ill do another install with Virus protection off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 I might try a REPAIR rather than an uninstall/reinstall first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD Mather Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 Make sure UAC is off as well when you try the Repair Install. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkent Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 (edited) Be sure to read, understand, and follow the instructions for installation provided by Autodesk. They have some very specific requirements for MS updates, .net framework, virus protections, etc. Edited May 2, 2012 by rkent Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dormant Posted May 2, 2012 Author Share Posted May 2, 2012 Got AutoCAD up and running. Figured out it was running when logged in as an admin, but not as a user. After a bit of playing around IT deleted some files from registry and AutoCAD decided to configure itself and load. So all good now. Thanks for all the help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickDarvey Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 Got AutoCAD up and running. Figured out it was running when logged in as an admin, but not as a user. After a bit of playing around IT deleted some files from registry and AutoCAD decided to configure itself and load. So all good now. Thanks for all the help. Hey Dormant, Do you think you could post the solution/get your IT guys to post the solution (which reg keys)? I'm trying to make this work in a school environment where no one runs as administrator. Cheers, Nick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dadgad Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 Welcome to the forum. This is not really my field of expertise, but can't you change this in the PROPERTIES of the desktop shortcut? On the SECURITY tab, or you may need to use the Advanced options? I believe that as an administrator you can specify a new user group and permission settings for that group. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickDarvey Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 Cheers AutoCAD isn't really my field You can run it elevated from there if it was a standalone computer, but we're running on pretty locked-down domain-joined systems. I've packaged and sequenced maybe a hundred apps in the last few years - I've never met anything so hideous as Autodesk Design Academy. There are so many little things you have to tweak to get it to deploy properly and no documentation on any of it T_T Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vmanero Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 i know this thread is about 2 years old but i think i found out how it could work. this might be worth the shot. i've been searching all over but found no other solution to this problem. toyed around with my pc, searched online for solutions and somehow it worked. on fresh install, look for the old license files and delete them in order for the license transfer utility to run. it's found on the following directories: Windows XP > C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\FLEXnet Windows Vista/7 > C:\ProgramData\FLEXnet the old license files are as follows: adskflex_00691b00_tsf.data adskflex_00691b00_tsf.data_backup.001 then again try to run autocad. i've done this with antivirus, antimalware and uac disabled. you may try doing it with everything else enabled if it works. good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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