Since a month, I´ve a new Iaptop for work, where I install several products from AutoDesk. All of them work except AutoCAD.

The program “hangs” at startup. The status bar, on the bottom of the AutoCAD window, "hang" on 39% or 43%, loading at the template file acadiso.dwt. Even if I changes the existing acadiso.dwt file with a clean one, from the autodesk site or elsewhere, the program keeps on hanging at the same point. The OS (Windows 7) state that there is no responding from the program.

If I get rif of the template file, the program continues, but when I open a new file or an existing dwg, it hangs again. And again the OS state there is no responds from the program.

I read all the forums I found on this issue, among them was an article published by Autodesk support, ID: TS1076266, about "Program appears to freeze or hang during startup". This article is for AutoCAD 2008 but it looks the same on 2011.

I have tried every solution I saw on the forums and on this article, like "un-checking for publisher's certificate revocation", re-install, repair etc…

Installed several versions of AutoCAD, and all hangs at the same moment.

Even installed other products, like 3D Studio, Maya or Inventor and all do work fine…… Every program works fine, except AutoCAD. And that’s just why I bought the laptop.

How can I solve this problem? There is no way that the program continues after reading the template file.

My spec:

Dell Precision M6500:

- Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit

- i7-920 intel core

- Ati Firepro m7740

- Ram 4Gb

- HDD 500GB