Originally Posted by
irneb
Thanks RK! So it's litterally an extremely simple fix ... all that's needed is to create a registry key! Now you can't tell me ADesk cannot include such in their next update - they could even do this in a minor hotfix FFS!
Here we are in 2021 with AutoCAD 2022 and the problem is still around with even more busted bits.
Load acad.exe into Sysinternals' ProcMon.exe to see what's going on.
Here's the reg file I made that seems to have fixed it in 2022...
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Autodesk\AutoCAD\R24.1\ACAD-5101:409\Variables\XREFSTATE]
"PrimaryType"=dword:0000138b
"SecondaryType"=dword:00000000
"StorageType"=dword:00000003
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Autodesk\AutoCAD\R24.1\ACAD-5101:409\Variables\*XREFSTATE]
"PrimaryType"=dword:0000138b
"SecondaryType"=dword:00000000
"StorageType"=dword:00000003
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Autodesk\AutoCAD\R24.1\ACAD-5101:409\Variables\CONTENTTYPEORDER]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Autodesk\AutoCAD\R24.1\ACAD-5101:409\Variables\INPUTSEARCHOPTIONFLAGS]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Autodesk\AutoCAD\R24.1\ACAD-5101:409\Variables\SHOWNEWSTATE]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Autodesk\AutoCAD\R24.1\ACAD-5101\Variables\XREFSTATE]
"PrimaryType"=dword:0000138b
"SecondaryType"=dword:00000000
"StorageType"=dword:00000003
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Autodesk\AutoCAD\R24.1\ACAD-5101\Variables\*XREFSTATE]
"PrimaryType"=dword:0000138b
"SecondaryType"=dword:00000000
"StorageType"=dword:00000003
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Autodesk\AutoCAD\R24.1\ACAD-5101\Variables\XREFSTATE\StorageType]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Autodesk\AutoCAD\R24.1\ACAD-5101\Variables\CONTENTTYPEORDER]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Autodesk\AutoCAD\R24.1\ACAD-5101\Variables\INPUTSEARCHOPTIONFLAGS]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Autodesk\AutoCAD\R24.1\ACAD-5101\Variables\SHOWNEWSTATE]