You were logged on to Windows Vista™ using a domain account and tried to open an iPart or iAssembly table in Microsoft® Excel from Autodesk® Inventor™, but Excel did not start. However, when you ran the Windows session as a local user, Excel did start.

For more information on this issue, including potential causes, workarounds, and resolutions, see: AutoDesk Knowledge Base Article TS1087307.

Consider the following scenario:

• You have a computer that is running Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) or Windows Server 2008.
• The computer has multiple processors installed.
• You restart the computer.

In this scenario, the computer may stop responding at the Windows Start screen.

After you upgrade Microsoft Windows XP to Windows Vista, you may notice that duplicate shortcuts or duplicate folders appear in the Start menu. For example, you may notice that the Notepad shortcut has a duplicate. Additionally, both of these Notepad shortcuts may open the Notepad program.