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How to find ARCHICAD on a computer?

Anonymous
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Hi, everyone.

I found something confusing that there is multiple regsitry information about ARCHICAD in Registery Editor. I have installed ARCHICAD 21, 22, 23, 24. However, they are under different registry folders.

I can find ARCHICAD 22, 23, 24 under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/GRAPHISOFT SE. Where is ARCHICAD 21? I found there is something about 21 under HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/GRAPHISOFT/ARCHICAD_64 named ARCHICAD-64 21.0.0 INT R1.

Is it because something went wrong in my computer? I want to know if it is common that registry information in there places. Where's your registry information about ARCHICAD?

Thanks in advance.
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Barry Kelly
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scandi wrote:
Thank you. Could you please help me with this problem: where is the ARCHICAD installation with a language except for English?

It seems like you will find all of them in the HKEY_CURRENT_USERS section.

Barry.
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Ralph Wessel
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Do you want to discover different installations on the computer, or just the version an add-on is actively running in?
Ralph Wessel BArch
Anonymous
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Ralph wrote:
Do you want to discover different installations on the computer, or just the version an add-on is actively running in?
I want to find the dfferent installations.
SeRohde
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I checked on a machine with similar installs (except AC24) and found the same structure in the registry.
Is it because something went wrong in my computer?
No
I want to know if it is common that registry information in there places.
Yes it is, as far as I can tell
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Anonymous
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SeRohde wrote:
I checked on a machine with similar installs (except AC24) and found the same structure in the registry.
Is it because something went wrong in my computer?
No
I want to know if it is common that registry information in there places.
Yes it is, as far as I can tell
Thank you. Could you please help me with this problem: where is the ARCHICAD installation with a language except for English?
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Barry Kelly
Moderator
scandi wrote:
Thank you. Could you please help me with this problem: where is the ARCHICAD installation with a language except for English?

It seems like you will find all of them in the HKEY_CURRENT_USERS section.

Barry.
One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 27
Dell XPS- i7-6700 @ 3.4Ghz, 16GB ram, GeForce GTX 960 (2GB), Windows 10
Lenovo Thinkpad - i7-1270P 2.20 GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia T550, Windows 11
Ralph Wessel
Mentor
We search the children of "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\GRAPHISOFT\ArchiCAD-64" and "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\GRAPHISOFT\ArchiCAD" to find all installations. I would be interested to know if that isn't true in your case.

BTW - we need to confirm that the installation actually exists too. Entries for deleted versions seem to hang around sometimes
Ralph Wessel BArch
Barry Kelly
Moderator
Ralph wrote:
Entries for deleted versions seem to hang around sometimes

They sure do.
It looks like I've got some registry cleaning to do!


Barry.
One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 27
Dell XPS- i7-6700 @ 3.4Ghz, 16GB ram, GeForce GTX 960 (2GB), Windows 10
Lenovo Thinkpad - i7-1270P 2.20 GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia T550, Windows 11
Anonymous
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Thank you!

I find them all under the GRAPHISOFT/ARCHICAD and GRAPHISOFT/ARCHICAD-64.