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I finally took the time to find the Registry settings needed to get AUTOLOAD - ON AUTOCAD STARTUP to work from within the Config Settings form of iDwgTabs for a Vista machine.

You have to give write permissions in the registry to the user for this location HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Autodesk\AutoCAD\R17.1\ACAD-####:###\Applications\

Then once you have set the permissions and you go to the config settings dialog and select  AUTOLOAD - ON AUTOCAD STARTUP and hit OK, then close Autocad and restart and it will load iDwgTabs automatically. If you previously had it in the startup suite, you can remove it from there.

Next on the agenda is to get some English documentation. Hope this helps any other Vista users.

I opened up regedit in Vista. Got past all the security warnings. Found the section under HKLM\software\bizicom.

I right clicked on bizicom, and selected permissions. I gave the user full control of the BizIcom folder (which also did the subfolders).

I am now able to save the changes in the “Config Settings” area and have them stick when using the interface to make changes.

Autoload setting is still not working tho. I am guessing it has to write to the registry in a different location and still does not have permission.

Also, the “Config Settings” window still pops up when loaded. I am guessing there is a “run first time” setting in the registry that has not been able to be written to yet that is causing this problem. If there are any winXP users out there that can tell me where this registry setting is, I would appreciate it.

I really like this add-on for Autocad. iDwgTabs is from a Korean company called BizIcom, so there is not much documentation and it is mostly in Korean. I think this will be one of the best dwgtabs programs available, if I can get past a few bugs that I believe are Vista related. The program has thumbnails, scripting, save and close, and all sorts of other options that are user definable. As I find out more options, I will be presenting them here. Hopefully other users will help me out so that we will have english documentation available.

First, they have an option to Autoload on Autocad Startup. This option does not seem to work. I can get it to Autoload only by putting it in the startup suite.

I also cannot get the options to stick by using the “Config Setting” option. The changes will be retained while you have Autocad open. Once you close and reopen, you lose your settings. I have found a way around this by editing the registry. Below is a list of the registry settings. All are the default, except  “onetabhidden”=dword:00000000 which I changed to 0 from 1. I wanted the tabs to show up no matter how many drawings I had opened. That way the view does not change when you go from more than one drawings open to one drawing open.

The last thing is that the program always brings the config settings dialog up when I load the program. I assume this is a Vista issue (seems like it can’t read registry properly or something) , so maybe some XP users could let me know if this is actually how it is suppose to work.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\BizIcom]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\BizIcom\iDwgTab]
“CurVer”=”1.0.3.72″

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\BizIcom\iDwgTab\1.0.3.72]
“tool_path”=”C:\\cad\\IDwgTabs\\”
“onetabhidden”=dword:00000000
“tabicon”=dword:00000001
“tabvericon”=dword:00000001
“tabext”=dword:00000001
“tabfixwidth”=dword:00000001
“tabopensort”=dword:00000001
“docking”=dword:00002000
“zoomext”=dword:00000000
“onlymodify”=dword:00000000
“recentfileopen”=dword:00000000
“tooltip”=dword:00000001
“popup_offset_y”=”20″
“seltextcolor”=dword:00800000
“unseltextcolor”=dword:00808080
“startbgcolor”=dword:00f0f0f0
“midbgcolor”=dword:00f0f0f0
“endbgcolor”=dword:008e8e8e
“bgeffect”=dword:00000002
“usedlg_ctrltab”=dword:00000001

I decided to start putting up little tidbits that I have figured out that will hopefully save others the time of finding the solutions themselves. The topics I want to cover will be programming and Autocad.