Each morning when I start AutoCAD 2012 Mechanical, The startup banner comes up and does the "First Run Initialization" and its subsequent, lengthy loading and install process of every nut and bolt of the software.
I am running Vista, while the other two users in my office are still on XP (don't ask me why) and they are not experiencing this. Theirs are much faster and more typical of a routine startup.
If there is any system information that may be helpful, please don't hesitate to ask. I have no clue where to begin.
Thanks,
Pete
this is how i solved the problem on Windows XP.
Right click>Run as..>uncheck the protect my computer........
Dang. Not working for me.
All these years on XP and I've never messed with that checkbox. But if I understand it correctly, the protection you are turning off is normally off anyway, and unchecking the box doesn't give any additional rights to the program that it wouldn't already have with a normal startup. So I don't really get why it would work, but I'm glad it does for someone. Cheers!
Iam trying to install AutoCAD 2014 on Win8 single language but could not run the installation, and the following msg apperars
I get this exact message with 3dsmax 2015 on Windows 8. I am logged in as Administrator and have also tried "run as admin".
Old thread that seems to have gone unresolved. We are running acad 2015, and it does the same thing. It also INSTALLS VBA Enabler in addition to the first run stuff. This happens every time. First load after computer start up, restart, subsequent loads, and even when starting another session while one is already running. I haven't timed it, but I seem to remember autocad loading up in a matter of seconds, not minutes. Seems everyone just accepts it and leaves it up as long as they can before it gets the jitters and keels over. I was a walk on so I didn't get to see this set-up in action. The only thing I can say with some amount of confidence is that this doesn't seem normal, and I personally find it unacceptable.
Wow! Thank you Matthew Hocking! I have been fighting this one for years. How genius...yet so simple a fix. Twenty minutes out of every day was dedicated to just staring at my computer while it loaded every single file known to mankind. That is 86.6667 hours per year of wasted time. Cannot believe Autodesk has not fixed this one. But, I changed the properties to run as an admin....and boom! There it is. Immediate start up. I hope this is the fix all and it continues to work after reboot. Just a note to add , I am running Civil 3D 2016, so this looks like it probably works on all Autodesk products.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! and Thank you!
Well, it is also what happens when IT *does* give their engineers administrator rights. I've always run AutoCAD that way, and always had the problem. I finally did find a "fix," of sorts, though. When I got a new machine, running 2015 on Windows 7, the problem disappeared. Likewise for my second user who had the problem - new machine, new install, no more "First Run Initialization." What's more, she does not have administrator rights, and does not run AutoCAD as administrator. And my third seat still runs AutoCAD on an old XP machine without admin rights, and he has never had the problem. (I'm almost afraid to upgrade him)!
I've read most of this thread and there seems to be two different issues that may be getting confused with each other.
Issue 1: Getting the message "First Run Initializing" in the splash screen each time you restart AutoCAD (or an AutoCAD based vertical) after a machine reboot. Below is a screenshot of that occurring. From what I've seen and read other places, this is normal (i.e.: as designed) and benign. I'd like to know exactly why it occurs and what happens differently after a PC reboot that does not happen normally - but I can live with it. (My users and I have local Admin rights on Win7 btw)
Issue 2: Seems to be the presence of the secondary installer dialog (example shown below) - which is unrelated to the above. This occurs when AutoCAD can't find the registry components that should exist once the software has been run successfully for a given user. More reading on this here.
I've heard too that "First Run Initializing..." every time is normal behavior. I'm a little skeptical for two reasons.
1) Only some of my stations first run initialzed, and currently none of them do. So if it is normal behavior, I guess my now AutoCADs are acting abnormally. (But hey, I'll take that kind of abnormality any day!)
2) I can understand that some initializing might be required every time the program starts after a reboot, but several minutes' worth? That doesn't seem normal.
(And I don't know anything about Issue 2. Hope it stays that way.)
This worked for me with Acad 2018 and saved me so much time in loading the programme on Windows 7, thanks for Top Tip