I bees a windows computer support dude since '92. So, event viewer was my first stop. No joy there. Full disk scans, and cleanings next,.... Tried all kinds of stuff before uninstalling.
An uninstall process should remove ALL related reg entries, related files, etc. without disturbing ANY other program. The user should never have to edit the registry,...
rebuild: 20 + years of projects, sonar versions, plugs: every version of sonar,... waves, kontakt, halion, vsampler,..., copy samples,... ms office, wp office: tracking lyrics, project notes, settings,... file converters, video/image editors, audio/video capture,... Dragon, and on and on, then updates, settings, configurations, routings, registrations,... Days of work.