Audacity Forum

Bingo! Loading the C++ SP1 does the trick. And, of course, now that you mentioned it, I had just uninstalled the Visual C++ prior to the meltdown. I had installed a few years ago but not used it in the last year. I did not understand that there was a set of runtime support programs that would go awa...

Sorry, my reference to 1.3.6 should be to 1.3.x where x has been 9, 10, 11 and 12. the key here is that all of those did work on my machine until XP hiccupped. When I regained control, none of them worked while 1.2.6 still did. My interpretation is that some component of XP went away. That component...

I am running XP Pro, service pack 3 on a ThinkPad T61. I have been using Audacity for a few years. Several months ago I downloaded and installed 1.3 and had used 1.3.9, 1.3.10, 1.3.11 then 1.3.12 without problem. About a month ago, my Windows suffered a minor meltdown. When I recovered, 1.3.6 would ...