Noel Borthwick Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 Cakewalk relies on a proper installation of various Microsoft runtime libraries for several components (as do many other Windows programs). You can read more about the Microsoft redistributables here. While the Cakewalk application only uses the latest runtime libraries, there are other components and plugins that may utilize earlier libraries. Hence the Cakewalk installer additionally installs some of the older versions of these libraries that are used by certain known modules and plugins. Occasionally the Microsoft runtime libraries installation may get damaged by installing other programs (or even Windows update itself!) by installing incompatible components or removing necessary runtime components that are required for proper operation of Cakewalk. If this happens. the typical symptoms are crashes or hangs on starting Cakewalk or opening a project. A clean install of Cakewalk will always install the necessary components required for proper operation of the program, and typically restore normal operation. Add/Remove programs should typically display something like this on a clean system. The first step to try before attempting reinstallation is to attempt to repair any redists you have. Go to Add | Remove programs and search for Visual C++. That should list all redistributables you have installed. It may look like the list above or you may have some older entries as well. To try and repair them click the ellipsis next to the entry (as shown below) and choose Modify. It should show a Repair option. Try repairing your redists and then check if your problem is resolved. If you are running into problems and have older redists installed, you can uninstall all redists and run the latest Sonar installer. However, it's not always convenient to reinstall the application, so we've built a new redistributable installer to help repair a system that doesn't contain all the necessary runtime libraries. You may download the new redistributable installer here. This installer also attempts to repair a broken C++ library installation. Running this installer will reinstall all required runtime library dependencies and should in most cases be able to recover from a damaged installation. NOTE: In some cases, you may need to manually download the latest Microsoft X64 redistributable and then run a repair install. This should repair a damaged install which can happen when another application has overwritten the DLL's with faulty versions. 7 10 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brost Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 Hello I have hard times reinstalling cakewalk, i installed the new installer but i still cannot install cake walk with band lab , it just propose to update... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scook Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 6 minutes ago, Brost said: Hello I have hard times reinstalling cakewalk, i installed the new installer but i still cannot install cake walk with band lab , it just propose to update... Was the registry cleaned after uninstalling? If not, this must be done to perform a full install from either the Cakewalk Web Installer or BandLab Assistant. The step to clean the registry is part of the clean install instruction. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris tarrkanian Posted January 9, 2023 Share Posted January 9, 2023 (edited) also cant launch either the cakewalk or pro tools icons ...tried fresh clean with both to no avail......it happened right after jan 1st midnight ...my clock was set to 2064 so i reset the clock and i was never able to launch ...very strange ......so im not really wanting to reinstall windows or reformat ....if something simple ...also i downloaded the fix driver for redistributale for cakewalk above this forum ...no good ....i understand lately that ilok cloud has had issues with pro tools so i checked licences ...no problem there ....nothing launches ....also checked my vst and uninstalled any demo plugins like air or other.....what can be effecting only cakewalk and pro tools ....magix demo is still working fine .......help please ok .....thanks Edited January 9, 2023 by chris tarrkanian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starship Krupa Posted February 15, 2023 Share Posted February 15, 2023 On 1/8/2023 at 7:02 PM, chris tarrkanian said: .....what can be effecting only cakewalk and pro tools ....magix demo is still working fine What likely happened is that when you installed the Magix demo, its installer installed their generic ASIO driver, which is known to cause problems with Cakewalk (and from the looks of it, Pro Tools). If you uninstall your Magix demo, my guess is that Cakewalk (and likely, PT) will start working again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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