Turn Off Infocenter\Live Updates\Help in Autocad 2013

[Kannan12]

Hi,

I am using the Autocad 2014. In the top right side of the Autcad2014 I can see the following features.

Search, Sign in , Live Updates and Help.

I want to hide those features permanently. I have tried the following steps in the registry to hide Infocenter mentioned in various forums, but still I can see those features.

1. Modified the InfoCenterOn to '0'

2. EnableCommunication.. to '0'     

Is there any other way or configuration files which  I need to modify to turn off those features.

Thanks

Kannan

[rkmcswain]

Make sure you are changing the correct value in the correct key.

I just tested this and it does work for AutoCAD 2014. (Your subject says 2013, but the body of your message says 2014??)  I am 95% sure the same process works for 2013, 2012, etc.

Close all sessions of AutoCAD

Go to this location in REGEDIT:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Autodesk\AutoCAD\R19.1\ACAD-D001:409\InfoCenter  (The R19.1 and the ACAD-D001:409 sections may be slightly different on your version)

Set the value of "InfoCenterOn" to 0.

Restart AutoCAD.

AFTER:

[miloburger]

Hi

I want to try this as well. I've used that Outside the Box app, but in CAD2014 it's not working. And we are experiencing a lot of issues regarding InfoCenter. It hangs quite a lot.

[miloburger]

Thanks, it works. Hopefully this will solve some of my troubles.

The additional services are also not starting up any more.

[braudpat]

Hello from France

You can try something else ! You must be Local Admin of your PC

<Humour ON>

--> Your ACAD will be "very" quiet with the Web & Internet !!

<Humour OFF>

Into : C:\Program Files\Common Files\Autodesk Shared

and into : C:\Program Files\Common Files\Autodesk Shared\WSCommCntr?\lib

Please check any folder : WSCommCntr?

Rename any "WSCommCntr?.exe" to something like "WSCommCntr?.ex_sav"

Re-Run ACAD , any improvment ?

Bye, Pat

[lemanhhung0302]

Try to copy this LISP routine to command line. It is a toogle switch the InfoCenter ON or OFF

 (if (= (vl-registry-read (strcat "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\" (vlax-product-key) "\\InfoCenter\\") "InfoCenterOn") 0)
    (vl-registry-write (strcat "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\" (vlax-product-key) "\\InfoCenter\\") "InfoCenterOn" 1)
    (vl-registry-write (strcat "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\" (vlax-product-key) "\\InfoCenter\\") "InfoCenterOn" 0)
)