Error Message: Another copy Audacity Running...

Audacity Help Forum Windows
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Windows XP Audacity 2.0.4 .exe installer

When attempting to install 2.0.4 I repeatedly receive an Error Message: “System has detected another copy of Audacity Running… Installation not allowed”
I have uninstalled, deleted, removed every element of Audacity I could find. The Task Manager still showed that Audacity was running! I then deleted that process in the Task Manager. I restarted and then even temporarily turned off the PC with the same result. On one last effort the new program seemed to install finally but when I attempted to open it the same original Error Message was displayed and it did not open. Help!

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Go to the “Processes” tab of Task Manager once more, then right-click over audacity.exe and choose “End Process Tree”.

Reboot.

Then you can uninstall 2.0.4 and use this test build https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/audacity-start-failure-or-blue-screen-on-a-few-machines/30903/1 instead without installation.

Or you can leave 2.0.4 installed and replace “audacity.exe” from the installation folder with the "audacity.exe from the test build.

Or go back to 2.0.3 http://code.google.com/p/audacity/downloads/detail?name=audacity-win-2.0.3.exe .


Gale