AutoCAD LT crashing uncontrollably

[Anonymous]

Starting today, AutoCAD LT started crashing unexpectedly causing me to loose a bunch of work. What's going on? I've sent a bunch of reports but this is riddiculous.

[pendean]

What year version is this?
Your OS?
What does your IT person see changing on your PC and/or where you store your files today that is different from last week?

[rkmcswain]

Anytime you do something worth saving, run the QSAVE command. You won't lose any work this way.

Unless the QSAVE command itself is causing the crash of course.

[Anonymous]

Its AutoCAD LT 2020 running on Windows 10 that has taken in all the recent updates.

Nothing changed. It was fine in the morning - on for a couple of hours then the computer was off for one hour then this happened. AutoCAD crashes after about 10 min of work.

[rkmcswain]

Whether you realize it or not, something changed. Could be the data files you are working on, Windows updates, some other application replaced a DLL, etc., etc.  Do you have, or can you create a separate Windows user account on this PC? If so, switch to it and repeat your actions under this other user account. Do the issues go away?

[Anonymous]

I did as you suggested and started AutoCAD in a new user account - it went through the motions of first run, doing its setup and such. I worked on the same file for a bit and it didn't crash. I admit I'm a little impatient and didn't want to wait too long - but if this is the case that its something in my account than what should I do?

[rkmcswain · Accepted solution]

We have over 500 users and I see this happening about once a week. To solve, we reset the user's settings, which is essentially what you have accomplished (as a test) by using a different Windows login.

[Anonymous]

Ok. Does this mean I shouldn't migrate my settings?

[Anonymous]

Resetting has indeed resolved the issue! Thank you kindly!!!