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Code Red => AutoLISP (Vanilla / Visual) => Topic started by: mailmaverick on March 17, 2020, 02:56:10 AM

Title: DESKTOPANALYTICS
Post by: mailmaverick on March 17, 2020, 02:56:10 AM

Autodesk is unreasonably collecting data of user files by internet through their DESKTOPANALYTICS program.
To all people, kindly disable it by typing DESKTOPANALYTICS and unchecking the option in the new window.

Also, is there a way to stop DESKTOPANALYTICS through LISP ?

Title: Re: DESKTOPANALYTICS
Post by: tombu on March 17, 2020, 07:35:37 AM

I was under the impression they were only collecting information on issues like crashes and other problems with their software so they could fix them. What data are they collecting we should be concerned with?

Title: Re: DESKTOPANALYTICS
Post by: MP on March 17, 2020, 08:52:29 AM

Reg key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Autodesk\MC3

    ADAOptIn

        0 = Opt out
        1 = Opt in

Easy enough to flip via lisp, if no one posts code I will later.

PS: You likely have to restart AutoCAD for it to "take".

Title: Re: DESKTOPANALYTICS
Post by: mailmaverick on April 02, 2020, 09:09:16 AM

Dear MP,
Please post LISP code to do the required changes in registry.
Thanks.

Title: Re: DESKTOPANALYTICS
Post by: tombu on April 02, 2020, 10:29:54 AM

To toggle it off/on:

Code: [Select]

(defun c:ADAOptIn (/ key)
  (setq key "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Autodesk\\MC3")
  (if(=(vl-registry-read key "ADAOptIn")"0")
    (vl-registry-write key "ADAOptIn" "1")
    (vl-registry-write key "ADAOptIn" "0")
  )
)
Enter ADAOptIn

Title: Re: DESKTOPANALYTICS
Post by: T.Willey on April 02, 2020, 10:36:20 AM

tombu, maybe return the value set so the user knows which option they have set.