Audacity Forum

Check back here tomorrow, I'll ask someone with more experience with Vista to have a look, but he's in a different time zone.

I'm in the same time zone as Steve, just warped hours of waking/working.

There aren't a lot of options remaining, but has anything else relevant changed at the same time you moved to 1.3.13, such as moving to a new Vista Service Pack, changing the sound device or updating its drivers?

First thing I would suggest is that the starter process for scanning VST plug-ins could be hanging and that is the process you see running. 1.3.13 looks in system locations for such plug-ins but 1.2 does not unless you install an optional library for loading VSTs. So to begin with:

1) Make sure there are no "audacity.exe" instances running on the "Processes" tab of Task Manager. If there are, right click over "audacity.exe" and choose "End Process Tree" (not "End Process").
2) Now to stop Audacity 1.3.13 loading VSTs, right-click the attached "audacity_kill_VST.txt". Choose "Save Link As" or "Save Target As" and save the file as "audacity.cfg" (without quotes).
3) Copy and paste the audacity.cfg just downloaded to Users<user name>AppDataRoamingAudacity and agree to overwrite audacity.cfg when Windows asks. Or if you are happy editing audacity.cfg again, select all the text in it then paste in the following so as to leave only this new text:
4) Now launch Audacity and see what happens. If Audacity launches and you don't want VST effects, all should be good. if you want VSTs, we will have to find out which ones are causing a problem.

If Audacity still doesn't appear:

5) Go through the same routine above to kill the Audacity process tree and reset preferences by editing audacity.cfg. Just leaving NewPrefsInitialized=1 at the top of audacity.cfg with no other text at all will be fine.
6) Download the following slightly different version of 1.3.13 (the Audacity code is the same, but the Microsoft dll files it comes with are later: http://audacity.googlecode.com/files/au ... nifest.exe
7) Install the 1.3.13 downloaded in step 6) over the existing 1.3.13 and run the newer one (no need to uninstall the old one first).

Let us know how you got on and which idea helped, if any did.



Gale

Uninstalled Audacity. Installed CCleaner and ran it. Reinstalled Audacity and now it works. Haven't recorded with it yet but at least it opens now. It was a registry problem I suppose.