Revit 2013 Crashes when “Devicelock” program is installed.

Issue:

You have Autodesk Revit 2013 programs installed along with devicelock. When you start Revit, it crashes with the following event log entry

Event ID: 1000
Faulting application name: Revit.exe, version: 2013.0.2012.716, time stamp: 0x500xxxx
Faulting module name: Utility.dll, version: 2013.0.2012.716, time stamp: 0x500xxxxx
Exception code: 0xc0000005

"Devicelock" can also affect other Autodesk Programs like 3ds Max, Autodesk Simulation Mechanical 2013. This affects mostly on Windows 7 ~ 64 bit editions.

Solution:

If the company policy doesn't allow you to disable the devicelock software, please try the following.

-> Uninstall both Autodesk and "Devicelock" software.

-> Install Autodesk software and run some tests.

-> Install latest version of "Devicelock" software.

If you have found any other workarounds, please share it in the comments of this blog.