Starting SW without Add-Ins - My Bad

Discussion in 'SolidWorks' started by lmar, Dec 21, 2007.

  1. lmar

    lmar Guest

    Hello,

    I just went to select an Add-In during a SW2007 session when I
    accidently selected a Vista version instead of my machines' XP
    version. (They were beside each other and I "clicked" a little bit too
    soon).
    SW then crashed to desktop.
    Now, every time I start SW2007 it crashes.

    Any suggestions on how I start the application in "Safe Mode" so that
    I can disable the obviously wrong Add-In.

    Len
     
    lmar, Dec 21, 2007
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  2. lmar

    Dale Dunn Guest

    Any suggestions on how I start the application in "Safe Mode" so that
    I'm sure there's a command line switch, but I don't know it. How about
    finding the .dll for the add-in and rename it temporarily. IIRC, that will
    force it to unselect. You might be able to find something in the registry
    too.

    That's all the ideas I have. Good luck.
     
    Dale Dunn, Dec 21, 2007
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  3. in the registry. it's at \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SolidWorks
    \AddInsStartup
    it's a bit tricky to find which key corresponds to a given addin, but
    setting every REG_DWORD to 0 will do what you want
     
    Philippe Guglielmetti, Dec 22, 2007
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  4. lmar

    lmar Guest

    Thanks for the suggestion.

    I ended up renaming the application folders prior to starting SW.
    Application couldn't find folders it needed and SW was able to start.
    Renamed folders and then selected proper add-in.

    Cheers,

    Len
     
    lmar, Dec 30, 2007
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