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Complete uninstall of Autocad prior to reinstallation

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david195
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Complete uninstall of Autocad prior to reinstallation

I have a stand alone installation of Autocad 2018 which became unstable.  I followed the Clean Uninstall procedure:

https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Clean-uninstall.ht...

When I then tried to reinstall the program, I accepted the terms, the program then checks for installation requirements and tells me that Autocad 2018 is still installed.  The install button is greyed out.  I then used IObit uninstaller, followed by deleting every file and folder related to Autocad that I could find with the Everything software and finally used the Microsoft install/uninstall troubleshooter.  After each of these, I checked but the install button remained greyed out.  Any thoughts on how I can get the program up and running again?

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m_latz
in reply to: david195

Which AutoCAD 2018 version is it exactly ?

For example "AutoCAD 2018 English 32-Bit" or AutoCAD Mechanical 2018 German 64-Bit with VBA and Update 1.2" ?

 

I ask, because what you can also try is to install/repair all msi packages manually. After you should have a working AutoCAD or you can use the standard installer to uninstall AutoCAD.

 

If I know exactly which AutoCAD 2018 version you have I can prepare a "script" for you how to proceed.

 

regards

 

Markus

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david195
in reply to: m_latz

Thanks for replying.  I was finally able to find a stored backup of the hard drive and solved the problem that way

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