I’m ashamed to admit it, but the most recent version of AutoCAD I have installed is 2000. No, not even 2000i—just AutoCAD 2000. Theoretically, I should upgrade my installation and migrate the settings, but since I don’t really have much in the way of customized settings, I’d rather just installe 2005 fresh, so that my commentary here is unecumbered by any historical cruft. So, I must first uninstall the old ACAD…

So far, Windows has asked my permission to remove several “unused” DLLs. I missed writing down the first one, but the others are: ACADFICN.DLL, MTSTACK.EXE, iecalswr70.dll, ieflicwr70.dll, iepcxwr70.dll, iepngwr70.dll, ietgawr70.dll, ietiffwr70.dll, iebmpwr70.dll, ac1st15.dll, atlast15.dll, iejfifwr70.dll, ShareDBENU.dll, axENUres.dll, ierlcrw70.dll, ofst42.dll, adsk42.dll, blnd42.dll, bool42.dll, cstr42.dll, covr42.dll, eulr42.dll, fct42.dll, intr42.dll, ieig4rd70.dll, lop42.dll, iespotrd70.dll, oper42.dll, rem42.dll, shl42.dll, spline42.dll, swp42.dll, crt142.dll, ShareDB15.dll, achapi15.dbx, dboleutl15.dll, crt242.dll, kern42.dll, iecalsrd70.dll, acismENU.dll, acutil15.dll, acrx15.dll, acdb15.dll, acIsmObj15.dbx, and evidently many more. Let’s hope none of them are needed by other stuff I have installed, because I’m going to let Windows kill ’em all.

And of course, I have to reboot to finish the uninstall.