2 small utilities for Spoon Studio

[Armagedom]

A question: when you virtualized AutoCAD, have you used that virtual machine (on which is starting well)?

No, I use another virtual machine for testing with clean OS.

[a_catalin]

Ok, but I think that those 2 virtual machines have pretty much the same "hardware" (motherboard, video card, HDD type...), isn't it?
Once AutoCAD is activated, if you change too many computer base components it will ask to be activated again.
When you try the virtualized AutoCAD on the real computer, it will "think" that you changed some components and ask again to be activated. But the virtualized AutoCAD can't activate well because some registry entries and/or files are missing (or perhaps it uses a service which can't be started well).
I notified the Spoon Studio team about this a long time ago, they said they are working on it but still it's not fixed.

Do you intend to use this virtualized AutoCAD only on your work computer or on any other computer (with your USB key/flash)?

[Armagedom]

Ok, but I think that those 2 virtual machines have pretty much the same "hardware" (motherboard, video card, HDD type...), isn't it?
Once AutoCAD is activated, if you change too many computer base components it will ask to be activated again.
When you try the virtualized AutoCAD on the real computer, it will "think" that you changed some components and ask again to be activated. But the virtualized AutoCAD can't activate well because some registry entries and/or files are missing (or perhaps it uses a service which can't be started well).
I notified the Spoon Studio team about this a long time ago, they said they are working on it but still it's not fixed.

Do you intend to use this virtualized AutoCAD only on your work computer or on any other computer (with your USB key/flash)?

Yes, It is just that. I intend to use the virtualized AutoCAD on multiple computers, including my work computer with USB flash or on native OS.

[a_catalin]

Well, until they fix the problem in Spoon Studio you can't do much.
What you can do:
- you can virtualize directly on your work computer so it wouldn't ask for activation, but this will work only on this computer;
- you can try to find a dll that "bypasses" activation.
Also you can notify the Spoon Studio team about the problem and ask to be fixed. This way maybe they will fix it faster, who knows...

[Armagedom]

Well, until they fix the problem in Spoon Studio you can't do much.
What you can do:
- you can virtualize directly on your work computer so it wouldn't ask for activation, but this will work only on this computer;
- you can try to find a dll that "bypasses" activation.
Also you can notify the Spoon Studio team about the problem and ask to be fixed. This way maybe they will fix it faster, who knows...

I can't virtualize directly on my work computer because my account is not Administrator.

I've searched for this dll for AutoCAD 2011 or 2012 on the web, but until now could not find it. I found for AutoCAD 2010 and its portable it's OK.

I'll notify the Spoon Studio team about the problem and ask to be fixed.

Thank you very much, friend!!! You are an expert!

[johnmcloud]

Hi a_catalin,

I have virtualized AutoCAD 2011 and 2012 x86 using Spoon Virtual Application Studio 2012. However, despite all apparently went well, a window licence error is open and the application does not work. What happens is that I have tested virtualized applications on virtual machines and work without showing any error but when I run the portable apps on my work PC, displays a license error message.

What I want to ask is, why does this error pops up?

Thanks for your patience.

I had the same problem with 3ds Max 2012 Educational Version native x64, the licence problem and all the rest. Many hours of work and i have finally a portable version can work on 2 different PCs, but i have edit manually many registry key, sandbox, some stored .dll etc...
There isn't a "easy way" for Autodesk software or a generic guide, the hard part was the activation licence...

At the end, is possible but many many hard, the hardest i have tested ( Office 2010 simply not work for Spoon )

[Armagedom]

I had the same problem with 3ds Max 2012 Educational Version native x64, the licence problem and all the rest. Many hours of work and i have finally a portable version can work on 2 different PCs, but i have edit manually many registry key, sandbox, some stored .dll etc...
There isn't a "easy way" for Autodesk software or a generic guide, the hard part was the activation licence...

At the end, is possible but many many hard, the hardest i have tested ( Office 2010 simply not work for Spoon )

Eu ficaria muito agradecido a você se me ensinasse como eliminar a mensagem de erro de licença que é exibida quando eu rodo o AutoCAD portátil em outro computador.

[a_catalin]

I just noticed a problem with Spoon Studio: if I start Microsoft Word from Microsoft Office (any version) using the exe generated by Spoon Studio and "winword" as parameter - when I try to close it, it doesn't close properly because of mdm.exe. But if I try with a parameter like this one <</XShellEx="@PROGRAMFILESX86@\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\WINWORD.EXE">> it doesn't do that anymore.
By the way, the use of mdm.exe by Microsoft Office was deactivated anyway when I unchecked Tools > Internet Options > Advanced > Disable Script Debugging (Other) (during virtualization).

Until they fix it I would recommend using ExeBuilder only with the default setting - "Full path to file", not "Use triggers".

[johnmcloud]

Eu ficaria muito agradecido a você se me ensinasse como eliminar a mensagem de erro de licença que é exibida quando eu rodo o AutoCAD portátil em outro computador.

Eh? With catalin speak english and with me spanish?
I'm not spanish, and i repeat what i have say the last time:
There isn't a guide for this, isn't easy and i don't have last version of AutoCAD for testing it. Oh, and don't have so much time.

@catalin Ok, good to know

[a_catalin]

Hi.
In this recently released version they changed the encoding of the xappl files from utf-16 to utf-8.
I will try to modify ExeBuilder so it can read from them as soon as possible.

Regards, Catalin

Later edit: I have modified ExeBuilder and I updated the links in the first post of the thread.