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Cadence OrCAD and Allegro 17.4-2019 Installation Guide for Windows
Installing the Products
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Removing an Installation
If you select Remove and then click Uninstall, 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 17.4-2019 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 license server information, in the form of