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SHSteve Holland12/04/2018

Hi Everyone! Here is the list of most accessed KB solutions for the first quarter of this year.To view a KB solution, click on the Solution ID.

   

   

RankSolution IDQuestion
1S-048683Why does the SOLIDWORKS® Resource Monitor display "system resources are running low" on Windows 7 64-bit?
2S-073387Why does the SOLIDWORKS® 2017 SP4 software stop responding when I close files?
3S-071158What does a SOLIDWORKS® installation fail with the error ‘register_i386_SldShellExtServerExe’?
4S-069274Is there a tool for SOLIDWORKS® PDM that can help verify connectivity between a client and server or between replicated servers to ensure the server and service ports are accessible?
5S-048684Why does a "system resources are running low" warning dispaly on Windows Vista® and Windows® 7 64-bit if not all of the Physical and Virtual Memory is used?
6S-017133How can a user troubleshoot SOLIDWORKS® Enterprise PDM API add-in DLLs that fails to distribute or fails to load with error 'Failed to register the COM DLL' on client systems?
7S-074167Why does my computer with an Intel® processor perform slower after installing a Windows® Update?
8S-061562How do I repair or uninstall and reinstall Microsoft® .NET Framework components?
9S-07981When installing SOLIDWORKS® Workgroup PDM server, why do I get error 1303?
10S-051631How can a clean uninstall and reinstall of SolidWorks be performed?  Is there a cleanup utility that can be used to do this?
11S-073373In the ‘License Usage’ tab of the SOLIDWORKS® 2018 SolidNetWork License (SNL) Manager, why do I see the error ‘Could not get information from this server’ after the license is activated successfully?
12S-033302When I run SOLIDWORKS®, I get the error: ‘Failed to initialize Visual Basic for Apps, equations and macros will not work….’ followed by the error ‘Environment variable 'temp' must be set to a temp directory’. What does this mean?
13S-054855What can cause "Failed to initialize Visual Basic for Apps, equations and macros will not work. Are you low on disc space?" upon start-up of SOLIDWORKS®?
14S-072608What can cause the SOLIDWORKS® 2017 software to take a long time to start as compared to the SOLIDWORKS 2016 version?
15S-017826How can you restore a copy of a SOLIDWORKS® PDM file vault to a separate system from a SQL database backup (.bak) in order to test upgrades or troubleshoot vault specific problems?
16S-020198What does the message "No database connected to this view" mean when browsing into a SOLIDWORKS® Enterprise PDM file vault view?
17S-034751What could cause the error 'Archive server could not open windows registry' when creating a local view or attaching to an archive server from a SOLIDWORKS® PDM client?
18S-072597In the SOLIDWORKS® software, when I perform various actions such as edit features, change view orientations, edit parts-in-context, or use the View Selector, why does the display or graphics area flicker or flash?
19S-018842[...]\cosworks.dll cannot be loaded. Either the Add-in or one of its components is missing. (Version 2011 and up)
20S-072437When I use the SOLIDWORKS® 2017 software on a workstation that has a slow network connection to the SolidNetWork License (SNL) server, what causes the error ‘Could not obtain a license for SOLIDWORKS’?