Cleaning PhysX Menu Duplicates

13 votes
Version: 
1.00
Date Updated: 
02/23/2011
Author Name: 
Fred Moreau

If you customize your UI a bit and have installed the "3dsMax 2011 Subscription Advantage Pack" or the NVidia PhysX utility for 3dsMax, you should notice that it adds menus to the Customize Dialog every time you run 3dsMax. In a month or so, you will probably have to scroll over a thousand duplicates in the Customize Menus Dialog.

I had a quick look in the PhysX MaxScript files, but I don't want to mess with it. Instead, I made this simple script, that will remove all PhysX menus when 3dsMax shuts down. Don't worry, they'll be added again next time you start.

You can run it once, but I recommend putting it in the following location so that it keeps on doing its job all the time :
Windows XP : C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\Autodesk\3dsMax\version\localization\scripts\startup
Vista/7 : Users\username\...\Autodesk\3dsMax\version\localization\scripts\startup

If you are the Administrator and want it to apply to all Users, you can also put it in
3dsMax root folder\Scripts\Startup

Version Requirement: 
3dsMax 2008 and above

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jonahhawk's picture

Yeah... I don't have this

Yeah... I don't have this problem. Sometimes the best solutions are the the simplest ones.

noel_d3's picture

Other way :

Thank you, it's nice but it seams complicated for a simple thing:
You can simply move the file "px_start.ms" from "script / startup" to "script" ;-)

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