This is the third time this week that this has happened to me but once again my AutoCAD LT 2010 will not respond upon doing simple tasks such as save as or open. The past two time I have had to uninstall AutoCAD and uninstall it from the registry using regedit and I had thought that the first time this happened it was maybe due to a corrupt install, but it happened again and the second time I thought it might be due to using the Export to PDF command and I have not used that command since the last reinstall so it doesnt appear to be that. I am using Windows 7 Professional and everyone else at my company does not have any problems with their AutoCAD just me. After the last reinstall AutoCAD was working fine and I used it to do a few things, then I began working on other things none of which involved AutoCAD and then when I just tried to start using AutoCAD again it suddenly does not work anymore. So for the third time this week AutoCAD has suddenly stopped working for me and as far as I can tell I am not doing anything to cause it, I know people say, "Software doesn't just break on its own" but AutoCAD has gone from working fine to suddenly not working without me doing anything in AutoCAD and I cannot seem to get the appropriate help to solve my issues thus far.
I work for a smaller company so we do not have any IT personnel on staff. The problem with doing a Windows Restore to a point when it worked is that I started last week and this is a brand new computer and I did not have AutoCAD on this computer until on Monday and the first problem occured Monday afternoon so there really isnt a time I can go to when AutoCAD was definitely working fine. I will try to get a new Windows login next week as it is Friday afternoon. Everyone here that uses AutoCAD has the same Windows log in as I do so I would think that is not the problem. I can do some research on my own to figure out how to reimage my PC to match everyone elses.
Would there be a problem if I am using Windows 7 Professional and the other users of AutoCAD here are still using Windows XP?
No, Win7 and LT2010 are a good match for more users than not: are you all using one of the XP machines a file server? Or are you using a "real" Server with a server OS (and which operating system and how are you connected to it)?
But I won't gloss over the fact that I find Win7's blue spinning wheel comes up more often that not in any AutoCAD version and about drives me nuts some days.