To Prevent Installing Application Manager on a Windows Computer

How to avoid stand-alone and deployment installation.

For stand-alone installations, and deployments that do not make use of the standard deployment creation workflow, you must remove a set of Application Manager install instructions from the setup.ini file (found in the \cdrom1 directory) before installing your Autodesk product, as follows:

  1. In a plain text editor, such as Notepad, open the setup.ini file.
  2. Find the "Install Execute & UI Sequence" section of the file.

    Note that there are three statements in this section, EXE_SEQUENCE, INSTALL_SEQUENCE, and UI_SEQUENCE.

  3. In each of these three statements delete the following string: ADAPPLICATIONMANAGER;
  4. Save and close the setup.ini file.

When creating a deployment, you can avoid installing Application Manager by unchecking the Application Manager selection in the installer: