02.21 TO SPEED-UP DRAWING FILE OPENING TIME:

The Problem:
• Some Drawing Files take a lot more time than others.

One Possible Cause of that Delay:
• AutoCAD may be searching the Drawing File for a Digital Signature. During the installation of AutoCAD, a shell extension loads onto your computer to determine if a file is digitally signed by displaying a specific icon in association with that file when viewed from Windows Explorer or the file’s Open/Save dialog box. To determine whether a file is digitally signed, the shell extension looks into each drawing file before displaying it. If you have a folder containing many drawing files, this activity will slow your system and unnecessarily decrease your productivity.

The Cause of that Cause:
• On June 30, 2000, President Bill Clinton ushered in a revolution for Internet commerce by signing the e-Signatures bill into law. This law mandates that electronic “signatures” on legal documents be accorded the same legal status as traditional signatures on paper documents.
• Thus, AutoCAD must search for a Digital Signature.
• Thus, the Delay.

The Solution:
• Since our Office does not currently use Digital Signatures, we should turn-off the Search for a Digital Signature. Once it is turned off for a Drawing File, no future search will be made at the opening of that Drawing File, and no Icon will be placed with its name, (until the Search is turned back on.)

The Steps:
• First, not in AutoCAD but in Windows Explorer, find the Drawing File and
Highlight it.

• Second, Right-click on that Drawing File.

• Third, an options box is displayed.
Click on the 2nd line: “Enable/Disable Digital Signature Icons.”

• Fourth, the Signature Validation Options dialog box is displayed.

In the center, Uncheck the:
“Validate digital signatures and display special icons.”

The note at the bottom of the dialog box points out that the new setting will not take effect until the next time you log on to Windows. So, once you have clicked on “OK,” log off of Windows Explorer by going down and clicking on “Start” , then clicking the “Log Off” button.
Then, you will have to log back on.

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