Sorry to post here but the "Student version" area for posts looks like 2008 since anyone has been there. So here goes.

Hello. I installed a student version of Soldiworks2010-2011 and it worked great for a month or so. I started another study of Excel and put SolidWorks on the back burner for a few months.

I opened Solidworks again recently so I wouldn’t get rusty and a few boxes come up.  One says, “Couldn’t initialize Feature works application” and the other says, “Could not initialize Solidworks utilities.

I also have noticed that my links in the far right “Solidworks Recourses” no longer work I.E. the tutorials link. Should I uninstall and reinstall it or will SolidWorks allow me to do that since it’s a student version?