Strange then that they seemed to find it so important early on yet nowadays other DAWs handle it better. I do like the idea of having multiple ones but it's just a pain to set up.

It would be a fairly easy autohotkey project. I do not need the utility and would prefer someone who wants the tool create it. I would be glad to help if necessary.

Get the latest version here http://ahkscript.org/
If you get stuck PM me.

I think it's safer to teach people to create a reg file than actually edit the registry.

As fas as anyone laughing because of something missing in Sonar, to be honest I could care less as I don't think anything in particular about the tools that others use. I sure don't feel a need to defend Sonar. It's a bit of software. I do admit that we get pretty attached to our DAWs and there does seem to be a great deal of pride associated with our personal choice.
I know heaps of people that have never heard of Sonar but can't believe it's depth once given a demo of what it can do. I've made heaps of converts. But I'm in Australia and it's rare to find Sonar in a music store.

If Sonar doesn't do something and there's a way to provide that function as in the case of the Tools Copy functions then I'm happy it can be made to happen. There's guys creating quite a few tools at the moment for things that Cakewalk aren't providing in Sonar. Good on them. That's positive to me not negative because those things haven't come from Cakewalk. For every feature that another DAW has I'm sure there's features that Sonar has that those others don't.

I've worked with most PC based DAWs and no matter the features I come back to Sonar for its overall completeness. No one laughed at Pro Tools because it wasn't 64 bit Yet s
sonar has been 64 bit for 10 years. I've recently had the opportunity to try out Magix Samplitude Pro X2 and while it has a unique way of working with audio and has some extraordinary project management tools far superior to anything seen in Sonar including a very comprehensive score editor, overall I still prefer Sonar.

I don't really think my degree of comfort or discomfort over the inclusion or exclusion of a feature will make the slightest bit of difference. I just happen to think that features that there are no workarounds for should have a higher priority so I choose not to worry about it.

I'd like lots of features but I don't get to choose so I try not to get too bent out of shape over the ones that haven't made it to development yet. If there's a feature request for something I like ill support it. I e even put in feature requests for things.

I reckon you should put in a feature request for this if you feel so strongly about it. See what sort of support it gets.