Friday, March 6, 2015

Clean Install and Uninstall of Revit products

1.    Log on as a Local System Administrator and disable any Antivirus programs.
 
2.    Remove the specific Revit 2015 product from the Windows Control Panel:

Control Panel > Programs and Features > Uninstall the specific Revit 2015 product


3.    Remove the 2015 Material Library from the Windows Control Panel:

Control Panel > Programs and Features > Uninstall the Autodesk Material Library 2015 


4.    Use Windows Explorer to locate and delete the following folders as appropriate:

• C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Revit Architecture 2015
• C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\RAC 2015
• C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Autodesk\Revit\Autodesk Revit Architecture 2015
• C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\Revit\Autodesk Revit Architecture 2015


5.    Open the system registry (Windows Start menu > Run > Regedit). Locate and delete the following registry keys as appropriate:

• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Autodesk\Revit\Autodesk Revit Architecture 2015
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Autodesk\Revit\Autodesk Revit Architecture 2015
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Autodesk\RAC 2015