Strange things happen on the world.
Recently upgraded tho whole class of computers to WinXP profesional and made a clean install of ADT 3.3. Yea, quite old product, but it was donated by AGA ltd. some years ago and is quite usable for lectures.
So, it crashes after a user issues some comands, that require dialog boxes. Should say an unusual situation, as it worked fine for years on Win2000.
I’ve allowed INTERACTIVE user to modify instalation folder and subfolders, as AutoCAD will not start if there will be no possibility to write something to acad.cfg.
This situation lasted for two weeks. Students and teachers went angry.
I’ve installed trial version of ADT2005. Checked if it starts. Everything fine with administrative account.
The next morning started with the phone call. AutoCAD does not start. Neither ADT 3.3, nor ADT2005. After short investigation i’ve found system service, called “Autodesk License service”. It started every time i started AutoCAD as administrator, but was not starting under ordinary user.
Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
Set startup type for this service to “Automatic”. ADT 3.3 is not acquiring license from the network license server. ADT 2005 is not starting either.
Removed ADT 2005 as the root of all Evil.
ADT 3.3 is not starting under ordinary user, but works fine under administrative. No time to argue, reinstalling ADT 3.3.
It still crashes. Autodesk has dropped support for this product and I wonder if anyone is still using it under WinXP.
By the way, three boxes were running both ADT 3.3, both ADT 2005 fine all this time.
2005.10.17 Seems like demo version of ADT2005 works fine side-by side. At least on one of the boxes.
Waiting for network license of ADT2005.