John, if they help any, here's what I got once from CakeWalk tech support regarding a clean uninstall and reinstall of Sonar.
Warning: If you want to keep any plug-ins from third-party manufacturers, in other words, not from Cakewalk, either back them up or make sure you have their installation or setup files so you can reinstall them after reinstalling Sonar. Read and understand the following instructions before continuing.
To wipe out Sonar and any other Cakewalk programs and install fresh copies, do the following.
1) Completely un-install all Cakewalk programs from your computer. This is normally done from Start | Programs | Cakewalk. This will not remove any of your project files or audio data.
2) Next open the Run Command with WindowsKey+R. 3) At the prompt type regedit and click [OK].***Backup your Registry before making edits - you do this by clicking the File menu, Export Registry File.
4) Now delete the following Registry keys: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cakewalk Music Software HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Cakewalk Music Software*Please note that this will remove any effects presets and key bindings you may have made in Cakewalk. You can back these up separately if you like, using Options|Key Bindings, Tools|SONAR Plug-in Manager, and Options|Colors. Hit F1 in these views for detailed instructions on how to do this.
5) Open the 'Run' command again. 6) Copy and paste the following into the prompt: %appdata%7) This will open your Application Data folder, Locate the Cakewalk folder and Delete it.
8) Navigate to the following directory and delete its contents: C:\Program Files\Cakewalk9. Reinstall Sonar, and make sure to install any necessary updates to bring you to version 8.5.3.282.
At 04:22 AM 11/9/2013, you wrote:
Hi all. As you may recall, a couple of months ago I had an issue where Sonar was crashing ,and we determined the solution was to uninstall and try installing again. I finally dug my Sonar CDs out of the boxes from the move, uninstalled, and tried reinstalling. It said a previous version had been found and thus shared paths were already defined. I figured that was fine since I didn't try to uninstall all the plugins Etc., just Sonar. So it installed. Then I patched from producer 8.5 to 8.5.2, then to 8.5.3. Finally I was ready to run! I did, and it did the thing about how it was going to personalize my stuff. I told it to do it. Low and behold, it crashed yet again. So since I wasn't there, I ran it again. It got to the wave profiler question, I tried to answer no since I was going to pick ASIO, and same crash.So I figured I'd uninstall again, and this time ran some registry cleanup to get rid of its old stuff. But apparently some of it's still there, because when I started installing, it detected a previous installation, and said the same stuff about shared paths Etc. So joy of joys, I get to try installing from scratch, I guess. But how do I do that? I assume I have to go delete stuff from the registry, unless there's some special option to the uninstaller which will do it for me. Somehow, I doubt it though. I have the sneaking suspicion I actually need to format the drive and do a fresh install of XP and everything else, but that's way more painful than installing Sonar from scratch, so I'll try Sonar first, he says, foolishly and optimistically.PLEASE READ THIS FOOTER AT LEAST ONCE! To leave the list, click on the immediately following link: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and in the Subject line type unsubscribeFor other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the immediately following link:ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq or send a message, to ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and in the Subject line type faq
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