Audacity Completely Freezes Laptop

[atvong]

I am running windows 7 and before today, I was able to run 1.3 just fine. But now every time when I try to open it, my computer just freezes all together and I have to turn off my laptop.I've tried uninstalling it and re installing and still has the same problem. I've also tried deleting the preferences and still have the issue of computer freezing. I have no idea what I did or what I should do. Is there any solution to this?

[steve]

Have you recently installed any other software? In particular and audio software or VST effects, or audio software that includes VST effects?

[atvong]

I have installed Debut Video Capture software and it freezes also when ever I try to record something. Also, I have installed the program called Free Audio Editor, which is pretty similar in a way to Audacity. I can open it just fine without it freezing my laptop.

[steve]

Search your computer for the file "audacity.cfg" (you will probably need to enable searching for hidden files).
It should be in the folder:
Users<user name>AppDataRoamingAudacity

Open audacity.cfg in NotePad or another text editor and look for the following lines:

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[VST]
Enable=1
GUI=1
Rescan=0

Change the values to "0" so that it says:

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[VST]
Enable=0
GUI=0
Rescan=0

then save the file (ensure that Windows does not add ".txt" to the end of the file name, it must be "audacity.cfg")
Then try to launch Audacity.

[atvong]

Search your computer for the file "audacity.cfg" (you will probably need to enable searching for hidden files).
It should be in the folder:
Users<user name>AppDataRoamingAudacity

Open audacity.cfg in NotePad or another text editor and look for the following lines:

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[VST]
Enable=1
GUI=1
Rescan=0

Change the values to "0" so that it says:

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[VST]
Enable=0
GUI=0
Rescan=0

then save the file (ensure that Windows does not add ".txt" to the end of the file name, it must be "audacity.cfg")
Then try to launch Audacity.

thanks for the help everything seems to be working again. I just had to delete the cfg file from the previous install and re-installed audacity again.