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Thank you, John and rsinger. I have had absolutely no issues with Roland Quad capture on either desktop or laptop and will keep with it. The problem was definitely the Creative stuff. I considered ASIO4ALL since it has been brought up to me more than once and if I was still having issues. I will stick to Roland unless I have to.

Update........Was a bit before I could get back to this. I removed and deleted Creative audio card. Did another clean reinstall. Same problem. Deleting Creative Soundblaster crap (still there!) from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ASIO as suggested got it up and started. Thank you all for the advice!! Haven't tried doing anything yet, but it at least it is up again. Will update again. I will give ASIO4ALL a shot

Wow.. Thank you all for your advice! I am very grateful, and will be looking into these for sure. I will not get a chance till this eve or Sunday and will update you on the results.

Thank you both for your attention and information. You have given me a few things to look into. It is probably going to be a day or few before I can mess with this. Fortunately, I can use my laptop in the meantime. I will let you know what happens shortly. Thanks again.

I should have said... Setup and interface are working perfectly on my laptop. No issues changing drivers. Everything was great until I changed driver on desktop. Back to my original comments. I have tried everything I could come up with and was suggested. completely stumped. I am thinking there is a file somewhere that is muffin me up. What could keep a fresh install from working on a machine that it has worked on for years?!?

First, thank you and Tim for your time and for trying to help! No, switching drivers should not have caused this issue but it's the only thing I did. No error. This is why I am stumped. Splash screen starts and immediately shuts off. Not running in task manager anywhere. This is I think 3rd 'clean' reinstall according to direction given here. First time after last reinstall, saw a box saying something like 'copying from core?? then blanked out. only the splash screen thing since. I always reboot after an uninstall. Interface and cables are fine. I am using them on my laptop as we speak.

Yes. It was AUD.INI (all caps) I changed it to AUD.OLD. When I tried to launch, nothing. Saw a new AUD.INI created. Yes on drivers, also.

I found AUD in the above folder and changed it to AUD.old....Still does not launch at all

Apologies....Roland Quadcapture. Worked perfectly on both laptop and desktop pc. I am also using Roland v-drums, Octapad, Spd-sx. Same latency issues.They were not hooked up to the desktop though, which is the one that crashed. The Cakewalk on laptop is still running. I'm scared to change to driver! lol This was the result of my trying to fix the latency problems. I will try what you suggest and get back...Thank you

Thank you for your response. I can't even open it to tell you what I did exactly. I was having latency issues using piano roll and an M Audio Axiom 25. I did as was suggested everywhere I read to switch from MME driver. I do not remember the exact options.When I confirmed...poof! Back to my initial statement. Is there somewhere I can confirm and see what actually happened?

Worked great until I tried to change from the mme driver to ASIO. As suggested, close open projects, change driver, restart Cakewalk.... crashed immediately upon driver change. Has not restarted since. did two normal uninstall and re install, then two time 'Clean" per instructions here. Same thing.........Won't even open. crashes immediately. I have SEVERAL hours into trying to fix what started out as a simple latency issue. Any suggestions? I am pretty done at this point and ready to give up on Cakewalk