Revit 2013 freezes on splash screen

[s3383485]

After hours of searching for an answer i still cannot find one relating to my exact issue.

Im running Revit 2013 on Parallels 8 (Windows 7 x64bit) on a Macbook Pro, it has been working fine for over a year untill today as it freezes on the startup splash screen and the 'SECSplashwnd' becomes non-responsive. Nothing significant has been changed as it was working fine 8 hours ago.

I have tried repairing the Revit installation, restarting windows and mac, uninstalling Microsoft Framework and reinstalling. 

Problem Details:

Description:

  A problem caused this program to stop interacting with Windows.

Problem signature:

  Problem Event Name:AppHangB1

  Application Name:Revit.exe

  Application Version:2013.0.2012.716

  Application Timestamp:500439cd

  Hang Signature:652d

  Hang Type:0

  OS Version:6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1

  Locale ID:1033

  Additional Hang Signature 1:652d4d67ab336aa4de6ac916e5359cdf

  Additional Hang Signature 2:4c04

  Additional Hang Signature 3:4c04b719da4b31c8195176caf8fec7b0

  Additional Hang Signature 4:652d

  Additional Hang Signature 5:652d4d67ab336aa4de6ac916e5359cdf

  Additional Hang Signature 6:4c04

  Additional Hang Signature 7:4c04b719da4b31c8195176caf8fec7b0

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[rosskirby]

In the task manager, make sure WSCommCntr (or something similar) is not running (end task on it if it is), then try starting Revit again.

[s3383485]

The process doesnt exist 😞

I think that only works when revit 2012 doesnt launch.

what else could it be!?

[rosskirby]

Have you installed all updates to 2013?  Have you installed 2014 recently?  If not, then you may need to reinstall .NET 4.0.

If that doesn't work, you may need to go in and edit the registry.  Google "Revit 2013 hangs at splash screen" and "parallels" and you should find a few forum topics covering how to resolve this.

[s3383485]

Couldn't find an answer 😞 just had to use a timemachine backup and copy over the Window 7 virtual machine image from a prior backup.. seems to work fine now despite the inconvenience.