Disable Add-Ins for Revit 2011 Products

There may be an occasion where you want to test Revit 2011 with add-ins disabled.

By default in Revit 2011 products the Add-Ins components have been moved from the Revit.ini file to a separate location.  While you can still utilize the Revit.ini for this release, the default location is now listed below.

If you want to test Revit with all add-ins disabled [or selectively disable add-ins] follow the steps below:

1.  Close Revit 2011

2.  Locate the following folder:

Windows Vista \ Windows 7 - C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\Revit\Addins\2011
Windows XP - C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Autodesk\REVIT\Addins\2011

3.  Temporarily move the add-in files from the folder above to another location.

4.  Launch Revit 2011; add-ins will be disabled.

When testing is complete you can move the add-in files back into the original folder.

There are other approaches to disabling add-ins as well.  I've included Jeremy Tammik’s The Building Coder blog below, which is an excellent resource for the Revit API:

The Building Coder

One specific post expanding on this issue:

Add-In Manifest and Guidize

Comments

[Rod Howarth]

Hi,

I'd just like to point out that that I don't think that will disable any add-ins that are only registered for a particular user.

You will need to check the following folders:
For Windows XP - C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\Autodesk\Revit\Addins\2011\
For Vista/Windows 7 - C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\Revit\Addins\2011\

Hope this helps!

Rod

[Geoffrey Phillips]

Revit 2011 is crashing in Windows XP.
How do I turn on 3G?