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    • leedeeteeL Offline
      leedeetee
      last edited by

      Recently, I've encountered very annoying problems with my SU and can't think what it might be - can't think of any new plugins I've installed which could have affected it.

      Anyway, my SU is extremely slow upon loading and whenever I alt+tab it back into the SU, it takes just as long to wake up. All of the dialog boxes flash/blink/dance and SU minimises itself before (usually) settling down and doing it again after the next alt+tab.

      Can anyone shed any light on this matter?

      Thanks.

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      • A Offline
        ArCAD-UK
        last edited by

        Is this at work or home?

        For someone to help it might be useful if you posted your machine specs, OS and graphics card details for the problem machine.

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        • thomthomT Offline
          thomthom
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          I've had this problem as well. In my case it turned out that the registry settings for my toolbars had been messed up so there was thousands of toolbar registry entries - all invalid. Just junk data.

          Are you familiar with the registry?

          If you are, can you have a look in the registry and see how many Toolbar related entries you got?
          HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\SketchUp8\

          Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
          List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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          • leedeeteeL Offline
            leedeetee
            last edited by

            @arcad-uk said:

            Is this at work or home?

            For someone to help it might be useful if you posted your machine specs, OS and graphics card details for the problem machine.

            This is at work, sorry. πŸ˜„


            pc spec

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            • leedeeteeL Offline
              leedeetee
              last edited by

              @thomthom said:

              I've had this problem as well. In my case it turned out that the registry settings for my toolbars had been messed up so there was thousands of toolbar registry entries - all invalid. Just junk data.

              Are you familiar with the registry?

              If you are, can you have a look in the registry and see how many Toolbar related entries you got?
              HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\SketchUp8\

              Not really, no. 😳 Is it tricky to view?

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              • thomthomT Offline
                thomthom
                last edited by

                Here's the thread on my issue: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=23343

                If you're not comfortable with the registry I can't really recommend you mess about with it. You can seriously mess up the system if you don't know exactly where you are.

                You don't have anyone who might be more familiar? IT manager?

                Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                • Rich O BrienR Offline
                  Rich O Brien Moderator
                  last edited by

                  This happens to me also but i aint messing in there. Not unless my hand is held

                  Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp πŸ“–

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                  • leedeeteeL Offline
                    leedeetee
                    last edited by

                    Just had a look at the registry - not touched anything though! ... And as you say, there are hundreds (thousands) of toolbar entries ...

                    Toolbars-BarXXXX ToolbarsUser-BarXXXX ToolbarsUserCustom-BarXXXX

                    P.s. I trust myself more than the IT manager to be pefectly honest!

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                    • thomthomT Offline
                      thomthom
                      last edited by

                      What's the highest number for ToolbarsUser-BarXXXX that you find?

                      Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                      List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                      • thomthomT Offline
                        thomthom
                        last edited by

                        Use at Own Risk!!!
                        This is a couple of batch commands I use to clear the toolbar registry. It has worked for me - but I put a word of caution anyway; use at own risk.

                        Activate the one corresponding to your SketchUp version.


                        Bat files to reset SketchUp 7 & 8 toolbar registry items. USE AT OWN RISK!!!

                        Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                        List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                        • thomthomT Offline
                          thomthom
                          last edited by

                          @leedeetee said:

                          P.s. I trust myself more than the IT manager to be pefectly honest!

                          πŸ˜†

                          Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                          List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                          • leedeeteeL Offline
                            leedeetee
                            last edited by

                            @thomthom said:

                            What's the highest number for ToolbarsUser-BarXXXX that you find?

                            ToolbarsUser-Bar 1852 is the highest I can find.

                            Thanks for helping me. I'm going to back up the registry (via CCleaner) and give them batch commands a whirl. Thanks again.

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                            • leedeeteeL Offline
                              leedeetee
                              last edited by

                              Thanks Thom, it appears better than it was. There were 3990 toolbars in registry that the batch command removed!

                              It still seems to be unstable though. Especially if I have two instances of SU running - still keeps minimising when it's thinking and saying 'not responding'. 😳

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                              • leedeeteeL Offline
                                leedeetee
                                last edited by

                                Hmmm, all those toolbar instances reappeared in the regstry after a re-boot. 😞

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                                • TIGT Offline
                                  TIG Moderator
                                  last edited by

                                  I think you'll find that a lot of them are under 'Toolbar-' with the same 'BarID'... and the bat file doesn't do anything to those... I suspect these are to do with saving the toolbar settings in v8... I have in the past saved the registry [.reg] - keeping a backup copy - and manually edited the file to remove such duplicate entries [which can run into hundreds]... then erased the whole registry and reinstalled it by running the edited .reg... This combined with thomthom's bat [I have a similar cmd file] will purge the registry of all of this unneeded toolbar dross and it will speed up the launch of a SKP. However, don't try manually editing a reg file unless you are sure you won't screw up - AND keep a backup copy of the original for when you do !!
                                  πŸ€“

                                  TIG

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                                  • Dave RD Offline
                                    Dave R
                                    last edited by

                                    Thomthom, does your BAT file only delete duplicate toolbar registry entries or does it clear them all?

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                                    • TIGT Offline
                                      TIG Moderator
                                      last edited by

                                      It removes all of the user/custom toolbar entries so you have a blank slate to restart from.
                                      However, as I explained there can be a lot of duplicated toolbar- entries too - I manually remove those...

                                      TIG

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                                      • Rich O BrienR Offline
                                        Rich O Brien Moderator
                                        last edited by

                                        I can't even find this place. I end up opening my browser πŸ˜’

                                        I know if I mess around I'll break it so I'll stock with the flickering πŸ‘

                                        Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp πŸ“–

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                                        • Dave RD Offline
                                          Dave R
                                          last edited by

                                          Thanks TIG.

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                                          • thomthomT Offline
                                            thomthom
                                            last edited by

                                            I've only run into this while debugging plugin development where I experienced plugin errors upon startup that messed up the loading of toolbars and caused lots of stale data.

                                            It's very odd that all your entries comes back...

                                            Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                            List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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