Promis.e as a standalone graphic environment

Question

Hi, 
 for a long time a Powerdraft license was added to a promis.e license. Although we are using promis.e standalone in newest version, very often we have utilized PD license to work on simple drawings, non-electrical plans and so on - because it's lightweight app and works with our custom Microstation workspace as well. But as I have been told, that's no longer true and newly bought promis.e licenses doesn't have "bonus" Powerdraft license. 
 Is there a easy way to run promis.e as a clean graphic environment only, without loading Project Manager, ELCAD mdlapp and other promis.e customizations? 
 Of course I know about a possibility of choosing File -> Open, but doing that way I still have some unnecesary things loaded. I have made some experiments to modify shortcut and some variables and I succeed to do that, but some unstability still occurs like an error message when closing a file. So maybe there is a "magic" switch to achieve that or something :-) 
 Regards Wojtek

Tani_S · Accepted Answer

Going back a few years, Promis.e historically ran on top of AutoCad, which had to be purchased separately from AutoDesk, making it an extra expense for users. With the advent of Promise. 2007, we were able to bundle it with Bentley MicroStation PowerDraft so that users would no longer have to make a separate additional purchase from another company. But it was still confusing for users who then had to download and separately install two different products from Bentley&rsquo;s website and make sure that they had the license running for both products, and otherwise manage two programs. In 2011with Promis.e V8i we were able to better integrate them and simplify the process so that users only had one product, Promis.e, with a built in standalone version of MicroStation to download, install and manage. This also give us a much closer unification and provide better performance since it is all supplied together. 
 All of the CAD commands for the MicroStation functions are still included and available for you to use, but since it is one promis.e product now and not two, you can&rsquo;t separate out the functions. If you try to disable to promis.e portion from loading you will also disable the software licensing and it will not function. You can, as you already mentioned, use File > Open and the other CAD MicroStation commands, but the promis.e functions will still be there as well.