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Cadence Allegro and OrCAD 17.2-2016 Installation Guide for Windows Installing the Products April 2016 41 Product Version 17.2-2016 © 1999-2018 All Rights Reserved. 9. Check one or more options in the page. 10. Click Finish to complete installation. Any new product that you installed incrementally is added to the shortcut menus. Repairing an Installation If you selected Repair and then clicked Next, click Install to repair the installation. The installer reinstall all installed features and adds any files missing from the hierarchy. Removing an Installation If you selected Remove and then clicked Next, the wizard will start and the installation will be removed from your system. Uninstalling the products 1. Open Programs and Features from the Control Panel of Windows. Note: Cadence Allegro and OrCAD products will appear in Programs and Features for all users only if installed using the all users option. If installed using the Only for me, it will appear only for the login ID used for installation. 2. Select Cadence OrCAD and Allegro (Incl ADW) 17.2 from the list of currently installed programs. 3. Click Uninstall to launch the installation wizard. The wizard prepares to remove the installation and then displays a message asking if you want to completely remove the selected application and all its product. 4. Click Yes to uninstall the products. 5. Click Finish in the Uninstall Complete page. Note: If you perform a series of installations, removing installations, and reinstallations, you run the risk of corrupting the CDS_LIC_FILE environment variable on the file server or on the remote client computer. If this variable is corrupted, you may be unable to run any products that are still installed. For example, if you had a previous Cadence release installed, then installed and uninstalled a new release, you may be unable to run any products from the previous Cadence release. Once the CDS_LIC_FILE environment variable is corrupted, the only remedy is to manually edit the environment variable and reset its value to reflect the