Starting Solidworks 1

[janwan]

Whenever I start 2007 Solidworks I get the following

"Failed to update the system registry. Please try using
REGEDIT"

After typing in RUN <REGEDIT> Solidworks opens without any problem

Anybody had this before.

 

[ctopher]

I suggest not doing REGEDIT unless you are very familiar with it.
Reboot your pc. If it continues with the same message, try doing a repair of SW.

Chris
SolidWorks 07 4.0/PDMWorks 07
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 04-21-07)

 

[SBaugh]

Sounds like limited user rights to the machine and for some reason SW needs to make a change to the registry. get admin rights and see if that helps... after that then switch back to power user settings or less.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

"If it's not broke, Don't fix it!"
faq731-376

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Taken from

http://www.groupsrv.com/computers/post-1258768.html

This error is typically generated by certain registry keys being
set to the incorrect permissions level. Go into the registry and find
the following registry entries:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SldAssem.Document
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SldDraw.Document
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SldPart.Document

Right click on these items and select permissions. Change the
permissions for these keys from Special to Full Control and Read for
both System and the currently logged-on user.

 

[janwan]

Hi Cor..
Thanks for the tip. It worked but not exactly. Now I do not need to run regedit, I can just click OK and it will load itself. It's annoying but OK. May be there is something else I need to change.

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

I had a similar problem a few releases ago. I believe I just changed the SolidWorks install folder properties to Full Control for everyone.

 

[janwan]

I reinstall it again and did changes in the Registry as you suggested and now it fork flawless. Thanks again

 

[JMirisola]

A star for you, CBL.

Jeff Mirisola, CSWP
SW '07 SP2.0, Dell M90, Intel 2 Duo Core, 2GB RAM, nVidia 2500M

http://designsmarter.typepad.com/jeffs_blog