SketchUp 8 M3 - No More Menu Greyout!

Dan Rathbun

Due to scary updates in other places over the years, I've become very wary of any updates to programs and tend to move....rename and try to hide working programs from installers - which I had done prior to downloading M3.

Well, I would say.. on Windows < 6, we could do this with Admin Privs' and no harm. With only User rights, the system would display a popup that warned the user they were moving files/folders from "Programs" and a vague "Some programs may no longer work." (or similar message.)

[Even with that, I have lost count of the number of times I have had to "fix" my Aunt's computer, after she has dragged a program folder onto the desktop (which is also a folder.)]

Anyway.. I don't think you can fool Windows 6+ by doing that anymore. It is keeping track of where you copy folders from any of the "special folders."

I would strongly suggest, you instead manually create and name, a "Restore Point" before running such upgrades / installs.
Sometimes an installer will call restore itself (and that's fine, one extra, no problem.) Some installers don't. Your named restore point should not get automatically cleaned up.

P.S. - I do not miss XP, because I have not upgraded. (I have to maintain 3 XP and 3 Win7 PCs in my family, and the XPs are so much simplier, and have far less headache.)

opal

@tig said:

But v8M3 fixed the 'grayed-out menus', as well as some other issues ???
You seem to have got yourself into a terrible tangle...

hehe.. yep.. that's why I went ahead and downloaded it and installed it. I read the release notes and thought.. oh good - update time.

shame on me