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Mark - Thank you so much. I cant tell you how grateful I am for your advice (and everyone else as well - Thank you all!!) Renaming the file did it. I was able to restart and reactivate Cakewalk. And I got the fader port set up correctly and so far it works well. I was pretty down at the thought of loosing everything and not knowing if any of the fixes would work. I could never have come to that solution on my own. I'm so grateful to this community who gives up there time to help others. You are all so appreciated. Thank you all again for your assistance.

Hello. Thank you for all the attempts to try to fix this issue. I have received a few reples from cakewalk recently. They suggest trying the below as a last ditch effort to get it to authorize. My question is: They mention downloading the 2023.09 installer and installing the program. I already have 2023.09 installed on Win 7 but with all the assistance here, I've opened, started and stopped the program a number of times. Will these instructions below still work if I've already opened 2023.09 or do I have to uninstall it and start fresh with the instructions? If anyone has any thought or experience with this, please let me know. I want to give it a try but since I already opened it days ago, don't know if it will impact the rest of the directions? Email from Cakewalk support: (Cakewalk) Nov 7, 2023, 15:11 GMT+8 Hi Kevin, Thanks for getting back. The reason why Cakewalk wouldn't activate via Help > Sign in with BandLab is that the computer is on Windows 7. This might be a shot in the dark, but you can try: Download the v2023.09 installer - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LzXkiEZnugrGqnrtISvrDXBF9ovG1V2r/view?usp=sharing Download the CbB_Login_Settings.zip that I have attached to this email. Install Cakewalk v2023.09. Don't open the program when done installing. Extract the files from CbB_Login_Settings.zip. You'll find 2 files. To activate the login-based password authentication, double-click the file titled CbB Login Password.reg when CbB is not running. Open Cakewalk, head to Help > Sign in with BandLab. It should open a dialog like this. Login with your BandLab username/email and password. To switch back to web browser-based authentication in the future, double-click on the CbB Login SSO.reg file.

John, Hi. I opened Bandlab assistant to install the last final update for the Win 7 machine. Blab assistant shows "Update available" When I ran it the progress bar showed (0/0) and just blinked and nothing happened. I tried "Check for update" in the cakewalk program. I launched it and it came back as "cant update at this time" Is the installer for the final update available separately somewhere that I could download and install manually?

Thanks John. Appreciate the information. I'll look at trying to update to the latest. I need to read the posts on Win 7 updates. I think I've seen some have issue with it? I know that's relative to each machine some work , some have issues. Appreciate the feedback. Best wishes.

Thanks for the responses. Appreciate any insights. Regarding this comment by Promidi: "All versions of Cakewalk by Bandlab prior to 2023.09 will eventually cease to activate, regardless of what OS you are running." Is the 2023.09 update compatible with Win 7? Or am I locked at my current version: 2020.01 (build28,64 bit)? Which I like and have no issue with. Not sure how much longer It will keep running until it deactivates? Hoping some workaround is provided to keep those with older systems functional without updates. I'm not really able to do the dual boot Win /10 idea but I appreciate the suggestion! The licensing issue of the dual boot is the reason I'm hoping to keep my old version functional. As for the future, I see the suggested specs on the website for the new Sonar says "Windows 10 or higher" I imagine the new Sonar it wont run on Win 7 even as a purchased product? It does say "Suggested specs" but It would be nice to know if it would function on 7 so we could keep things going as needed on those machines. I sadly purchased Sonar platinum for GC a few months before it became free. I had no idea at the time. The thought of having to purchase another Sonar at full price is no fun. Hoping there is some relief for those of us previous owners. But I understand they don't owe us anything since it wasn't there product at the time.

Hello. I have CbB installed on two computers, one has Win 10 and is up to date and works perfectly. Another is an older Win 7 64bit system that has CbB Version2020.01 (build28,64 bit) and continues to work perfectly for me. I've had this music only computer for a long time and its still works well. I have a lot of older software that was originally installed on the Win 7 system only, that I still want to use . I'm not going to update this machine to Win 10 due to the older software. Will the Win 7 version just stop working one day as it wont activate? Notes for release 2023.09 say Bandlab assistant will no longer be used to activate the product. I don't know if there will be an offline activation option for older systems? I don't require future "support" for the Win 7 machine. Only that it continues to function as is. I don't care about updates on the Win 7 machine but I'd like to continue to use it without any activation issues. Does anyone know if there will be an option made available or a way to keep older systems functioning if updates aren't required? Hoping someone has some incite Long time cakewalk supporter and user. Appreciate all the Cakewalk team has done for us all. Much appreciated.