Clean uninstall of Autodesk Inventor 2009

Issue

You may experience problems when installing Autodesk® Inventor™ after failed installs or uninstalls of other Autodesk products.

In these cases, it is strongly recommended that you completely remove Inventor from the system and then attempt a new installation on the cleaned system.

Solution

To uninstall Autodesk Inventor and remove any remnants of this product from the system, follow these steps:

1. Log on to Windows as a Local System Administrator and disable any virus-scanning programs.
2. In Windows Control Panel, double-click Add or Remove Programs and then remove Autodesk Inventor 2009.
3. Using Windows Explorer, locate and delete the following folders as appropriate:
   
   Microsoft Vista 64-bit installations
   
   
   • C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor 2009
   • C:\Users\Public\Public Documents\Autodesk\Inventor 2009
   • C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Autodesk\Inventor 2009
   Microsoft Vista 32-bit installations
   
   
   • C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor 2009
   • C:\Users\Public\Public Documents\Autodesk\Inventor 2009
   • C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Autodesk\Inventor 2009
   Microsoft XP 32-bit installations
   
   
   • C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor 2009
   • C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\ Application Data\Autodesk\Inventor 2009
   • C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Local Settings\Application Data\Autodesk\Inventor 2009
   • C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Autodesk\Inventor 2009
   Microsoft XP 64-bit installations
   
   
   • C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor 2009
   • C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Application Data\Autodesk\Inventor 2009
   • C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Local Settings\Application Data\Autodesk\Inventor 2009
   • C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Autodesk\Inventor 2009
4. Click Start menu (Windows) > Run.
5. In the Run dialog box, enter regedit
6. In the Registry Editor, locate and delete the following registry keys as appropriate:
   
   32-bit versions of Vista and XP
   
   
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Autodesk\Inventor\RegistryVersion13.x
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Autodesk\ Inventor\RegistryVersion13.
64-bit versions of Vista and XP


• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Autodesk\Inventor\RegistryVersion13.x
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Autodesk\ Inventor\RegistryVersion13.x

You will now have a clean system on which you can install Autodesk Inventor.

Note: If Vault is installed, you will need to perform a change/repair in Add or Remove Programs (Windows) to fix the integration.

Warning! Problems caused by improperly editing the Windows registry could render your computer operating system unusable. Microsoft provides a wealth of critical information that you need to know about the registry in the Microsoft Knowledge Base at http://support.microsoft.com/.

Use the Microsoft® Registry Editor only at your own risk and only after backing up the registry as well as the system.dat and user.dat files as outlined for your operating system in the Microsoft Knowledge Base and in the related solution, TS66513. Additional information about the registry is also contained in the Help topics in the Microsoft Registry Editor.

See also

How to remove all Autodesk products from a Windows system