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Laptop spec?

Hi I have to go buy a laptop for work. I will need to do walk throughs and prentation work on it. I don't really know what I am looking for. Basically my boss wants something he can "sell" our building to clients on. Any thoughts? I was thinking big ...

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Dell m6400... Opinions?

Hello GearHeads! I invested in a very nice Dell laptop many years ago. Unfortunately over time some fans lost their stamina and as a result of hard-to-find parts in Europe (and elsewhere) the laptop is needing to be replaced. As it is on a special wa...

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Password Bank??

I do not know if it just my computer or not, but every time i open archicad 12 and after i have been working in it for a while, all of a sudden, a little window pops up saying: (on the title block) Password Bank. And in the window it says: Abstract E...

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Installation crashes in InstallPackageExtractor MFC App.

When running the installation from our automated deployment solution, I get a dialog box titled InstallPackageExtractor MFC Application saying that the application has crashed. I watched the progress, and it did extraction progress bar, window disapp...

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archicad 10 crashes with startup

archicad keeps crashing when I open it... I have a registered copy, tried removing the dongle, but also crashes - doesn't even ask if I want to open demo version. using hp compaq nx8220. tried uninstalling and installing again several times, no luck....

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ORGANIZER LOCKS UP COMPUTER

In v12 on my PC, when i try to bring over a layout, master, or anything else, my computer locks up and i need to restart. This only happens with some of the files and never happened in v10. Are there any settings that would possibly be different betw...

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LAYOUTS DO NOT SAVE ALL OF OF THE TIME

In v.12 on my PC, i am having intermittent issues with layouts that have been created not saving. All of the plan information is there when i re-open the file (even items placed after the layouts were made), but any new layouts and masters are gone. ...

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Ram upgrade

I just upgrade ram from 2 ,to 4 gb.( never is too late..) I see no difference. Should i set up something? (page file or something else..) I am working in x64 xp .

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External content not printing

Hi all I've been trying to find a solutions for this for some time but I've had no luck either here or on Google and it can't be that strange.. I mean someone must have had the same issue so I thought I'd ask around here. So bear with me while I desc...

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AC11, AC9, AC7 on same machine

I had AC9 and AC11 on my machine for some time with no problems. I needed to re-open an old AC7 project and so re-installed AC7. All worked fine however now AC9 operates as default version. I.E. clicking on an archicad file should open up in AC11 but...