Rainmaker Posted November 10 Share Posted November 10 Started getting this nag screen Friday Nov. 8th. Been working fine till Friday Nag appears after opening Autocad. Closing the screen allows the program to work, but nag reappears about every 60 seconds or so. Autocad 2024 on Win 10. No new Autodesk products or anything was installed before this happened. Doesn't seem to be happening with Autocad 2025 on a different Win 11 box. Have the genuine-software2.autodesk.com blocked in the hosts file. Anybody know how to block the nag popup? // R Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution samoray Posted November 11 Solution Share Posted November 11 6 hours ago, Rainmaker said: Started getting this nag screen Friday Nov. 8th. Been working fine till Friday Nag appears after opening Autocad. Closing the screen allows the program to work, but nag reappears about every 60 seconds or so. Autocad 2024 on Win 10. No new Autodesk products or anything was installed before this happened. Doesn't seem to be happening with Autocad 2025 on a different Win 11 box. Have the genuine-software2.autodesk.com blocked in the hosts file. Anybody know how to block the nag popup? // R Autodesk and Adobe are creating every now and then a mirror for their license checking servers.... this is why you get this nags from time to time. the simple idea to bypass this "as I do it myself" is the following: 1- download "Charles Web Debugging Proxy" application and install it (you can find a full version in this forum). 2- fire up "Charles" 3- now launch Autocad or any Adobe program 4- locate any server address that appears on Charles left side that has relation with autocad or Adobe and block it in hosts file (dont forget to take out "https://"from the address -see picture below) 5- for easy hosts file blocking I use 'File hosts editor +" or just download "microsoft powerToys" for the same purpose, it has a good file editor between its features. in this picture you can see clearly the weird and random name servers that Autocad or Adobe are using... I hope I did not miss any detail, feel free to comments and ask if it did not work for you . Good lock -from samoray- Innocent and Rainmaker 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rainmaker Posted November 11 Author Share Posted November 11 It was api.genuine-software.autodesk.com adding that to the hosts file seems to have killed the nag, so far anyway. samoray and Wellington Britto 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samoray Posted Sunday at 08:47 AM Share Posted Sunday at 08:47 AM Although this topic is about Autodesk, but it works for adobe as well, today I got a new NAG in adobe Acrobat application so when firing up Charles, you can track outbound communications, and you get this (r3zj0yju1q.adobe.io): Use "Hosts File Editor" to block this address: ANd the NAG screen is gone. I hope everything is clear now dabourzannan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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