Autodesk Uninstall Tool

Introduction to Autodesk Uninstall Tool

During the installation of Autodesk, a large number of additional components are installed that are required by a personal as additional plugins for their work. Post work completion, it was a hassle to remove these additional products using the standard add/remove programs through the control panel. Thus to leverage user experience and to ease down the steps for the user, Autodesk came up with a unique yet interesting idea of having an uninstallation tool that provides choice to uninstall all the components for the complete Autodesk suite. This Autodesk uninstall tool plays a crucial role if the installation failed due to any reason and the user wants to have a clean installation. The uninstallation tool removes relevant details from the registry and thus reducing chances of after installation issues that may occur because of the failure of the partial installation. Since the uninstallation tool allows uninstallation of multiple software at the single time thus it is more efficient over the standard un-installation steps using the default control panel of the system. The next section will describe the steps to be followed to remove programs from the uninstallation tool followed by some tips and tricks.

Steps to remove the program using Autodesk Uninstall Tool

The uninstallation process would be slightly different depending upon on the type of operating used to install Autodesk products, but generally can be controlled by Control panel. Installing the Uninstall tool will help to remove all products at once –

Step 1: Open Start Menu and Search “Uninstall Tool”

In case the tool is not available, the uninstallation tool can be downloaded from – Link: https://viewer.autodesk.com/

Step 2 – Click and Open Uninstall tool

It will display all the components of the suite installed during installation of Autodesk. The choice of uninstallation lies with the user and you may deselect any components in case you don’t want to uninstall them.

Step 3 – Click Uninstall to remove software that is no more needed.

This will remove all the selected components from the user’s system.

Tips and Tricks of Using Autodesk Uninstall Tool

We can use various tips and tricks to use Autodesk Uninstall tool efficiently.

Tip 1 –

In case installation fails by system crash or any other means, use Autodesk uninstall tool or clean install before new installation as clean machines are generally positives as they remove unnecessary residuals from the system.

Tip 2 –

Clean installation refers to the execution of three steps without any troubles –

• The installation runs without error
• The product starts and licenses properly
• Product runs

Tip 3 –

What stops the installation –

• Competing programs/access: Usually antivirus and malware, permissions, BIM 360
• Prerequisites: Unavailability of Microsoft Visual C++ redistributables, Microsoft .net framework
• Installation files and folders: Autodesk previous versions sharing the folder destination, the presence of 3rd party plugins, object enablers
• user profiles and folders
• Registry keys: Residual registry keys

Tip 4 –

Before reinstallation of software, always reboot the system.

Tip 5 –

Always disable the antivirus before installation, The steps are as follows –

• Open the Task Manager and On the Processes tab
• Select the processes for the antivirus programs
• Then click “End Process”

Tip 6 –

Always remove an older Autodesk release using dedicated uninstallation tool provided by Autodesk before installing a new release.

Tip 7 –

Before reinstallation, delete all the files of the windows temp folder. Make sure you do not delete temp folder by itself.

Tip 8 –

Always maintain a backup for existing files and configurations.

Tip 9 –

During uninstallation using the Autodesk uninstall tool, the green tick will show the products removed and blinking arrow will indicate the current program being removed.

Tip 10 –

Autodesk uninstall tool does not remove the third party adds-ins example CTC BIM Project suite and these needs to be removed through the windows control panel.

Conclusion –

To conclude, Autodesk has created Uninstall tool that can be installed separately to remove components from the user’s machine. It is more efficient and time saving over the default uninstallation process done through the control panel. It can uninstall or provide us the choice to uninstall multiple software at once from Autodesk suite which is hassle-free. The entire process takes approximately 10 minutes to remove unnecessary components and can even remove that software that is not removed after uninstalling them from the control panel in windows operating system. The earlier default process through control panel was not only time taking but also leaves certain residues in the registry that increased the chances of occurrence of issues in software run post installation.

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