Jeremy Oakes

We’ll have to agree to disagree ref the sub par quality and his methods. I’ve asked him several times what set up he was using to pontificate his crap. He never bothered replying. J

My two Euro cents worth. How can you take someone who mimes, and who prances shirtless in the rain out of a tube station in London seriously ? He’s like a stuck record and takes great pleasure in assassinating groups/singers using poor quality audio and videos from telephones. If he used the original recordings i think he’d have more credibility, but he doesn’t. He uses stem splitters which produce tracks riddled with artifacts. YMMV

Personally i would leave it in place, its footprint is small. You never know what shared files or plugs the uninstaller may move. On my PC i have X2, Splat, CbB and Sonar. J

Yep, me also, just not my cup of tea. J

Please don’t wipe W11, that is really a gesture of giving in. It may not solve anything. I encourage you to stick with it and keep on troubleshooting. If the sfc /scannow trick shows everything is fine and hunky dory then you’d just be wasting your time and patience by wiping. W11 works for a very large majority without issues. The Bakers take some time to reply, don’t sweat it, not worth it. Personally I would start by uninstalling anything to do with both of your Focusrite units and any other Asio drivers you may have inadvertently installed. Then install the drivers for the unit you trust, re-booting after the uninstall(s) and then after the install. FYI, i have a couple of NVME 2’ plus an SSD I read about a FEW people having issues, but they are very specific issues. There are websites where you can check out those ssd’s concerned. Don’t sweat it. J

If you have several dmp files then either do several submissions or, better still, upload to Dropbox and send the link. Your photo is probably already out there. No biggie. J

Zip them.

Sounds like a very specific system issue, so here's my 2 Euro Cents ...... No need to re-install W11 in this modern world. You can do an in-programme repair now (disclaimer : I've never done it, its at your risk because> see next phrase which has always worked for me). Try this first : Open a Command Prompt as Admin : Start Button > type in CMD in the seach box > right click on the CMD exe file shown and choose Run as Administrator > if you throw up a UAC click YES > type the following in the Window where the cursor is winking at you : sfc /scannow > (note the space before the / ) then press enter and let it do its thing. If anything is wrong with your W11 files (corruption) they'll be downloaded and installed > re-boot and your W11 should be good to go. Also, close down any un-necessary apps when running Sonar. Run your A/V then make sure your it EXCLUDES (ie no longer scans) the main Cakewalk folder, and the vst folder (if its elswhere other than in the Cakewalk root folder). J

No, he gave up after W10. But a lot of them apply to W11 J

……. Turn USB sleepstate to never, turn off Windows sounds are also good ones to do. J

Zip it then. J

Same here (retired/pension bit) but my laptop, a modest i5, updated a year or so ago with no issues. There are several ways to do it and are all well documented. Just choose the one you feel at ease with. J

If you posted this upstairs you may get more reactions. Surely a 10 sec nag screen is a small price to pay for free software ? J

Whilst i rarely use Export, this intermittent behaviour also happens when bouncing. I’ve never been able to pinpoint the reason. J

I always found that all K7 machines, even the best, when the heads were clogged up or/and were not cleaned regularly, muffled the sound. Whatever the make. J