Registry Errors

[Anonymous]

I load AutoCAD LT 2002 on a local machine with my Admin rights. It works fine. I log on with a test account, (no rights), I receive registry errors. The official solution is to add these users to the power users group. Anyone in the IT field knows that this is a terrible idea. Any other compitent ideas?

[Anonymous]

Use RegEdit32, and assign Standard User rights for these keys (for all the
trees)

- HKCU\Software\Autodesk\....
- HKLM\Software\Autodesk\....
- HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer....

Alternatively, use RegMon from www.WinInternals.com, download
their free RegMon, and run it to monitor all keys, AutoCAD will access ....

The logfile may be saved - open this with a good editor, and "compact" this
file by editing & deleting lines, that report always the same Registry keys
...

This way, you will get an exact knowledge, which Registry keys AutoCAD
will access (writing) ... all those keys needs (better: the parent keys
only)
should be set to lower (Standard) User rights .....

Then the administrators will be happy ... 🙂

To automate the procedure, you can write a *.reg file, that will modify the
rights
for those parent keys ...

[Anonymous]

Does anyone know if Autodesk is going to do anything about this? Or do they consider this acceptable?

This is fine for large companies with IT groups, but small AEC firms don't need these hoops to jump through.

Please tell me they will address it.