Cleaning Registries before loading New Version of AutoCAD/LDD?

[Anonymous]

Cad Managers:

We have been having some problems on some of our machines after loading a
New Version of AutoCAD. I have had a few people tell me that we should be
cleaning the Registry files and Defragmenting the Hard Drives before we load
our new software. We Unloaded ALL old software, Deleted all Directories &
files associated with AutoCAD and Defragmented the hard drives before
loading the new software. Yet, we still get references to some old path
settings, menu's and fatal errors when running LDD. Many problems with
Civil Design.

We run Gateway PIII 450Mhz with 10Gb HD, 256 Mb RAM, 16Mb video cards
running WinNT 4.0 SP4 on a WinNT Network. We are now using AutoCAD Land
Development Desktop 2000i with MAP, CAD Overlay, Civil Design & Survey.

Does anyone else run through this procedure?

What program do you use for Cleaning the Registries?

What Defragmenting Utility Program do you use?

Any help would be great.

Thanks

Carroll J. Aasen Jr., Highway Design Technician/CADD Manager
CARVER COUNTY PUBLIC WORKS Office
Government Center - Administration Building
600 East 4th St
Chaska, MN. 55318-2192
E-Mail: CAASEN@CO.CARVER.MN.US
(952) 361-1010 Office
(952) 361-1019 Direct line
(952) 361-1025 FAX

[kartz]

Hi Carroll,
When we upgraded to LDDr2i, CAD Overlay and the Civil/Survey modules I had to change a few things in the registry. Unfortunately, I was talked through that part of the process by our vendor's tech. support people because I had no experience with making changes to the registry. I can't remember what I changed. Wish I could help.
Kim Artz
Washington County Engineering Department

[Anonymous]

Hi Carroll!

A Utility Program with all sorts of utilities and a Great File Manager called:

Ontrack System Suite 3.0 web link: http://www.ontrack.com/SystemSuite/

can indeed clean out the registry complete! And the complete package is $60!
It also includes defrag and antivirus! Check out the PowerDesk Pro File Manager!

Good Luck! Ciao, Terry
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Carroll Aasen Jr wrote:

> Cad Managers:
>
> We have been having some problems on some of our machines after loading a
> New Version of AutoCAD. I have had a few people tell me that we should be
> cleaning the Registry files and Defragmenting the Hard Drives before we load
> our new software. We Unloaded ALL old software, Deleted all Directories &
> files associated with AutoCAD and Defragmented the hard drives before
> loading the new software. Yet, we still get references to some old path
> settings, menu's and fatal errors when running LDD. Many problems with
> Civil Design.
>
> We run Gateway PIII 450Mhz with 10Gb HD, 256 Mb RAM, 16Mb video cards
> running WinNT 4.0 SP4 on a WinNT Network. We are now using AutoCAD Land
> Development Desktop 2000i with MAP, CAD Overlay, Civil Design & Survey.
>
> Does anyone else run through this procedure?
>
> What program do you use for Cleaning the Registries?
>
> What Defragmenting Utility Program do you use?
>
> Any help would be great.
>
> Thanks
>
> Carroll J. Aasen Jr., Highway Design Technician/CADD Manager
> CARVER COUNTY PUBLIC WORKS Office
> Government Center - Administration Building
> 600 East 4th St
> Chaska, MN. 55318-2192
> E-Mail: CAASEN@CO.CARVER.MN.US
> (952) 361-1010 Office
> (952) 361-1019 Direct line
> (952) 361-1025 FAX

[Anonymous]

We had some strange problems with profiles in MDT last week. The problem was
corrected after we unloaded MDT, deleted all the related folders and ran
regclean.
We use Executive Software's Diskeeper for defragmentation. It has a "Set it
and forget it" option that I've set to defrag the drives every night. Here's
the link to Regclean.

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q147/7/69.asp?RLD=375

[Anonymous]

>We use Executive Software's Diskeeper for defragmentation. It has a "Set it
>and forget it" option that I've set to defrag the drives every night. Here's
>the link to Regclean.

I just bought Diskeeper myself.

I take it you like it OK?

[Anonymous]

Yes, it seems to be doing an excellent job on the drives. I had it installed
and running in less than fifteen minutes without having to use help. Gotta
love it!