

The has references related to installing and configuring SolidWorks, eDrawings, and Enterprise PDM. This tech tip also describes some common system maintenance recommendations. Question: What should I do to my system prior to a new installation? Answer: There are a number of practices described in the tech tip. See the System Requirements page for details.

If you are using one of the recommended AV programs, you should not experience issues installing SolidWorks. With that said, most users cannot turn off their AV software due to corporate IT policy. The other issue with having the AV on during installation is performance-related. Instead, go into this key and delete only the IM & SolidWorks subkeys, and leave everything else.) SolidWorks. In the SolidWorks Installation Manager, select Advanced Options and select the four check boxes to do a complete uninstall. Click on Scan leftover button, and click on Delete to clean out all files/folders/registry entires supposed to be gone. Click on Analyze button to conduct the regular removal. Run the removal tool, and select the SolidWorks Installation Manager program icon. I hope you found this helpful! Thanks for reading.Question: Do you recommend turning off anti-virus scanning when installing SolidWorks? Answer: Certain anti-virus (AV) applications do not allow system resources to be updated if they are in use.ĭownload it here and start the installation. If after restarting a computer, the warning continues to appear, contact CATI or your local technical support for assistance. In such cases, restarting the system becomes the first troubleshooting step following an unsuccessful installation. If it is not possible to restart the computer at the time of install, then you can ignore the warning. In other cases, the transient state of a SOLIDWORKS installation can lead to installation errors.Īs a best practice, restart your system before beginning a SOLIDWORKS installation. This leaves the system in a transient state.įor example, an SQL Express installation automatically terminates if a pending reboot request exists. A pending reboot request occurs when a program or installation makes a change to files, registry keys, services, or operating system settings. To help assure a successful installation of the SOLIDWORKS software, the Installation Manager checks to see if there are any pending reboot requests on your system. If everything installs without error, why is it even there? Here is the reason:

Have you seen this message? Quite often(myself included) we click OK and keep going with the installation.

When installing SOLIDWORKS software, oftentimes the following warning appears:
