Civil 3D not opening with my Profile

[DonovanPorter]

morning guys and gal's

 

since my new pc Civil 3D does not open with my profile that i have created when i still had my older pc , i used that profile for quite some time in civil 3D on my previous pc , but with my new pc i have to open Civil 3D and load my profile manually every time i open the program.

 

i have found a solution where you can add the profile saved path in the short cut which you use to open the program with.

 

i have tried that but i get an error saying i don't have admin rights.

 

which is very strange cause i have full rights on my achine and the IT guy has confirmed that.

 

confused ??

[BlackBox]

It sounds like the new PC simply has an OOTB installed application icon (one that does not load your customization by default).

 

When you say you added the 'profile saved path'... did the application icon's Target path looks something like this:

 

"[color=red]<FilePath>[/color]\acad.exe" /ld "[color=red]<FilePath>[/color]\AecBase.dbx" /p "[color=red]<YourProfileName>[/color]"

???

[DonovanPorter]

yes exaclty like that , but when i try save it , gives me the admin rights error

[DonovanPorter]

here is a screen shot of the error

 

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[BlackBox]

This issues is simple - The icons that were installed are not on your desktop.

 

At this point, you're probably saying "WTH is this guy talking about, of course they're on *my* desktop!?" LoL

 

More specifically, the icons are installed under the C:\Users\Default\Desktop directory (where your user account does NOT have admin rights). These icons must be moved to C:\Users\\Desktop instead... only THEN will you be able to customize.

 

Edit: This applies to Windows 7 only

 

Hope this helps!

Edited August 31, 2011 by BlackBox

[DonovanPorter]

genius

 

thanks for that info (writes it down in black book of Cad tips)

[BlackBox]

Happy to help!

 

Cheers!