audacity not starting up

i downloaded the latest audacity for windows 7 and it installed successfully, however, when i start the program it brings up a little box saying “scanning vst plugings.” this box stays on my screen permanently and nothing happens. why does this happen?

It happens because you have a damaged VST plugin – possibly for another program – and the scan failed. There are ways around this. Looking…

Koz

http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/VST_Plug-ins
Koz

If Audacity never launches you will have to turn off the VST scanning in the audacity.cfg settings file. See here http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Release_Notes_2.0.2#Program_Launch (where it says “(Windows and OS X) VST/Audio Units Plug-ins”).

Audio Units are not supported on Windows, so just make sure audacity.cfg contains this:

[VST]
Enable=0
Rescan=0

Gale