Yeah, that crashing is definitely not normal. If this is crashing directly to the desktop, you might be able to force it to give you an error first, which will let you capture a crash dump so the problem can be diagnosed. In Preferences > File > Initialization File, add ExceptionHandlingSeverity to the Option field, and 7 to the Value field, and press Set. Then restart Cakewalk. This *should* give you an error message and chance to get a crash dump, and you can get that off