dear sir, have a nice day! i think that the problem which you are facing it will be solve as flow steps;- command : pickadd then press enter key enter a value for pickadd<0>:1 and enjoy! sk maurya mob. no. 09216102940 Punjab (India)

Hi SK Maurya

Pickadd has done the trick. I am sooooooo grateful. I can't tell you how much that little fault was irritating me!

This CR4 forum has worked again.

You must get yourself signed in and start collecting GA's!

All the best to you!

I think the problem lies in the Windows operating system in which I'm sure your reg cleaner or cure(?) deleted a Windows registry entry. The check for this would be to see if you have the same problem in another program.

Here's a couple of ideas which may help:

A lot of the reg programs have a restore feature which will restore all the registry entries it deleted. If it does, restore them and then (this is where it gets hard) try to delete only the ones which need cleaned. Or to put it another way unselect the ones you need to keep from the list it generates. Most reg cleaners will let you do that. You might want to try another reg cleaner. I use a free one called Glary Registry Repair that has worked well for me but there are many to choose from.

The hard part of this is that you may need to spend a lot of time looking up each reg entry that you aren't familiar with to see if its good or bad.

The other thing you might try is to do a Windows repair. How you do this will depend on who built your machine and if they have programs already installed to repair Windows or if not you can do a Windows repair from the original Windows installation disks. Just do an internet search for repairing your particular OS for instructions on how to do it. I say this because some people can explain it better than Microsoft does.

I do recommend that you backup your work before doing any repairs.

I would be glad to help you if you need to do a Windows repair and aren't comfortable with the info that you find., just let me know the OS.

Good luck,

Randy

Hi Randy

Thanks for your input but, as you will see above, the pickadd solution worked.

I think you are quite correct as I have used the reg cleaner since but de-selected anything with AutoCAD in it and I've been ok. I'm not quite sure why it is AutoCAD that suffers as all other programs are fine. It might be that AutoCAD doesn't really work for me straight out of the box so, I end up running Lisp sub-programs to get it to do what I want. Unfortunately, other cleaning programs see my modifications as problems and wipes them out.

Thanks again for your time as it is much appreciated.

I have the answer to your selection problem. I have had this problem in the past myself. To pick multiple times in CAD, first go to Tools, then options, and then selections unclick the box that says "use shift to add". It worked for me. Let me know if this solves your problem.

thatcher@rdseng.com

Hi Thatcher

Now what you have said is interesting! When I navigated as you suggested, I found that the box was unchecked! I haven't confirmed it yet but, I suspect that the pickadd command has unchecked the box from the 'front end' rather than in options.

Seems that there are always plenty of ways to strangle the cat , opss! Sorry Del!

Beej50,

Glad you got it going right.

This is a great forum as quite often someone has the perfect right answer. And you are right in that the guest should join this forum, he has shown that he would be a valuable member.

Randy