Stuck on Splash screen

[Royarn]

as title, I've tried the repair Microsoft redistrutable as suggested, no change. for 1 evening only cbb worked normally if I ran it as administrator, but not tonight. I'm fully up to date on windows 10, I've checked through all my driver to get updates, I've run sfc scannow,

If I shut down my system and re boot cbb will start normally, but if i close cbb then re start cbb then it hangs on splash screen. not sure how to do any other fauld finding at this point. oh i did delete aud.ini and re run, still no go. Help!!!!!!!!!!! please

Roy

[Promidi]

Have you tried uninstalling the Vdist runtimes (as opposed to doing the repair install), then reinstalling reinstalling the latest Vdist runtimes? (This is different to a mere repair).  These can be downloaded from here.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/help/2977003/the-latest-supported-visual-c-downloads

If that does not work, when you are at a state where Cakewalk by Bandlab does not start, can you check the Windows task manager to make sure that there is not a “cakewalk.exe” process still running in the background.

If there is, then maybe maybe a plugin or a driver is preventing the “cakewalk.exe” process from closing properly.

If this is the case, you might want to Uninstall and reinstall the drivers for your Audio Interface.

While you’re at it, you might want to head to the manufacturer’s website to see if there is a later version (Don’t use Windows Update).

[Royarn]

Thanks Promidi for your reply, done as you suggested and uninstalled / re installed vdist, but problem remains . Universal Control for my  Presonus  Studio 6.8 interface is up to date. Have noticed after trying several times that the program will open if i have my Firefox browser open. OK didnt quite believe it so tried many times, so theres a work around. but never needed the browser opened previously and Ive had nearly all versions of Cakewalk since 2XL and all updates to cbb since it came into being.

thanks Roy

[Promidi]

I would still uninstall and reinstall the drivers for your Audio Interface even though they are up to date.

[Royarn]

I'll give this a try later this week, not at home for a couple of days now. Thanks

[Royarn]

OK I restored my computer to a time just before the last Cbb update and 29.09.0.108 run as expected just started it several times in a row.  definately seems like a problem with this release only for me. release no. 29.09.0.120(rebuid 1)

Roy