This morning I was requested to (re)activate my DraftSight Free.

After having done so the programme failed to start-up showing an error-message 1721.

On this phenomenon there is already one question with the answer to trace a certain file s.a. swact....exe.

This particular file is absent on my pc. Please what's wrong all of a sudden ?

Greetings 

Gerard - Netherlands

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RESTORED !

After several various trials - even removed draftsight c.q. dassault-files from the registry since

uninstall did not work - I carried out a system-restore. Fortunately I then was able to install the most actual DraftSight version.

I skipped the registratiopn request.

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In the assumption to have used a wrong mail-account on the activation I re-tried to activate with my Google (@gmail.com) account.

The same disaster occurred, so:

- system recovery;

- cleared Dassault-maps in C:\\Users\\xxxxx\\AppData\\Local and in C:\\Users\\xxxxx\\AppData\\Roaming;

- re-installed DraftSight (194kB) and ignored the activation-request (using the X);

Everything ok and I could carry on with my newest cardboard plane model.

But (!) when I clicked the Google icon in the taskbar nothing happened.

Question:

is there a link between Microsoft (my pc inlog account) and DraftSight ?