AutoCAD 2007 is slow to Startup

[wayne.peterson]

Has anyone had a problem with the start up time of ACAD 2007? When I click on my desktop icon, it takes a long time for it to load ACAD. I have a Dell Precision PWS690, Intel Xeon 3.20GHz w/ 2.00GB of Ram. It should load extremely fast, but it doesn't. I was wondering if the are some parameters that might not be set right. I have 6 cad stations and they all act the same. Any help would be appreciated!

[jaberwok]

FWIW (not a lot) I disable acad's "startup accelerator". I don't see how making an internet connection is going to make my pc any faster.

[rkmcswain]

Has anyone had a problem with the start up time of ACAD 2007? When I click on my desktop icon, it takes a long time for it to load ACAD. I have a Dell Precision PWS690, Intel Xeon 3.20GHz w/ 2.00GB of Ram. It should load extremely fast, but it doesn't. I was wondering if the are some parameters that might not be set right. I have 6 cad stations and they all act the same. Any help would be appreciated!

* Download FileMon (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/filemon.mspx) and observe the file activity while ACAD is starting up. Maybe it's looking for a non-existent file or directory and is pausing until a 'time-out' is reached.
* If you have items on a network, maybe your network connection is slow.
* Disable communication center (http://themadcadder.blogs.com/my_weblog/2005/12/disable_the_com.html) to eliminate that as a cause.

[arshiel88]

Did your configuration of the network changed? It also happened to us, were currently moving from a 'Workgroup' network system to a 'Domain' system' (don't know why.)...and the guys in-charge with the networking can't explain the slow-down. I'll give Filemon a try tommorow and i'll check back later.

[robert.1.hall72202]

* Download FileMon (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/filemon.mspx) and observe the file activity while ACAD is starting up. Maybe it's looking for a non-existent file or directory and is pausing until a 'time-out' is reached.
* If you have items on a network, maybe your network connection is slow.
* Disable communication center (http://themadcadder.blogs.com/my_weblog/2005/12/disable_the_com.html) to eliminate that as a cause.


How can I disabel communication center???
I cannot seem to get it to quit throwing errors.

I have also experienced slowness in AutoCad.
I do not have any of my support files located on the office network.

[Opie]

How can I disabel communication center???
I cannot seem to get it to quit throwing errors.

I have also experienced slowness in AutoCad.
I do not have any of my support files located on the office network.
You can use the CAD Manager Control Utility. It is found on the CD. I don't remember where on the CD though.

The first tab is dedicated for the Communication Center. There is a radio button to allow you to disable it.

HTH

[rkmcswain]

How can I disabel communication center???
I cannot seem to get it to quit throwing errors.

I have also experienced slowness in AutoCad.
I do not have any of my support files located on the office network.

Did you follow the link (http://themadcadder.blogs.com/my_weblog/2005/12/disable_the_com.html) I posted? If so, did that not work?

[ccaron]

* Download FileMon (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/filemon.mspx) and observe the file activity while ACAD is starting up. Maybe it's looking for a non-existent file or directory and is pausing until a 'time-out' is reached.
* If you have items on a network, maybe your network connection is slow.
* Disable communication center (http://themadcadder.blogs.com/my_weblog/2005/12/disable_the_com.html) to eliminate that as a cause.


I have a slow ADT 2007 start up and the link to "Disabling Communication Center" is blocked by my firewall.... But I did download and use filemon.... VERY useful little program.

Can anyone discuss my filemon results? The slow part of the load are searches for ADT dbx files through ALL of my support directories. And it does each one multiple times. I also notice it looks for files that don't exist....like dll's for my custom CUI files. It seems the whole startup is riddled with inefficiencies.

Thoughts? Anyone?

Thanks

[Arben.Allaraj]

Has anyone had a problem with the start up time of ACAD 2007? When I click on my desktop icon, it takes a long time for it to load ACAD. I have a Dell Precision PWS690, Intel Xeon 3.20GHz w/ 2.00GB of Ram. It should load extremely fast, but it doesn't. I was wondering if the are some parameters that might not be set right. I have 6 cad stations and they all act the same. Any help would be appreciated!

Maybe you can have any virus.Try to scan your computer.

[Commissar Rod]

at sometime did you move any cusomize files to a different drive/folder? Maybe some unused things are still looking in the old place while all the ones you do use were changed because you had to make Autocad Work.

[daveea]

let's not forget some of the more obvious potential causes of this. when you uninstall Autodesk products, a lot of Autodesk configuration information still gets left behind. like PROFILES that might be huge or corrupted.

FILEMON is really the key to finding out which piece of the loading process is slowing you down. if you find yourself staring at a FILEMON log that is incredibly long with a profile (aws) file, for example, take a look at the profile size.

i had a situation where a machine was taking over 3 minutes just to bring up the purple launch banner for autocad 2007. we found the culprit being a fixedprofile.aws file in the megabytes range. as soon as it was toasted, everything came up immediately at launch.

if you have FILEMON running and you launch AutoCAD, you're going to see what is hogging all the loading time in a clean clear recorded log --- and from there you can really begin daignosing if it's a driver issue, a configuration issue, a file size issue, a network issue, an antivirus issue, etc.

-dave