Autodesk Desktop App

[Anonymous]

I've recently upgraded my Autocad Revit LT Suite and did the upgrades in two sittings. First was Autocad LT and the Autodesk Desktop App (ADA) worked fine. Then a few days later I did the Autocad Revit LT upgrade and now the ADA won't launch an it only shows the launch screen and nothing happens. When I'm in Autocad LT and it says I have two updates, I click on it and it launches the ADA screen but nothing happens.

I've read thru other posts and found non to match my situation.

Don

[pendean · Accepted solution]

You can safely uninstall the Autodesk Desktop App: it's not necessary to have to use the software.
And you should only install updates if you have a specific problem with the software and you find that an update is designed to fix that specific problem.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the response. I tried uninstalling it and it stated cannot
perform task because program is in use/running. This appears even after
closing all programs running and rebooting and trying to uninstall from the
start-up screen to make sure nothing was running.
Having said that I went to Autodesk website and downloaded the two updates
to AutoCAD LT manually and everything seems fine except I can't uninstall
the Autodesk Desktop App. Perhaps I shouldn't worry about it if it isn't
creating problems.

Again thank you for the help.

Don

[pendean]

Don,

You have to turn the app off first: it always runs in the background eating up system resources and adds clutter. But you seem to be OK with that, having mystery software eating up system resources? Never a wise thing, what else do you have running in he background because "isn't creating any problems" yet? They will at some point 😞

Right-click over your Windows Task bar, select START TASK MANAGER, click on the PROCESSES tab, and kill it first. Now uninstall it.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

All gone, worked great, once less piece of bloatware i guess