[Solved] Registry Cleaner BROKE ProChannel... Beware...

When I load new instruments and on some channels that are already set up, the following is happening:
 
1]  The bottom module does not load,
2]  When right-clicking to remove them, nothing happens after selecting "remove",
3] The button for the EQ pop-out is missing...
 
How do I fix this?
 

 

Sanderxpander
Is this in a specific project or in general?
I had it in one project, turns out it had somehow inexplicably become "corrupted" and the "solution" was to move all my tracks and data to a new project.

It worked perfectly this morning.  Only thing I can thing caused it was cleaning up my registry.  I tried opening older projects and all of them do this...  It's not the project...

Anderton
IMHO registry cleaning is overrated and should be used only to fix specific issues, and only if you know enough about the registry to be able to fix things manually. Hopefully you backed up the registry before making any changes, but if not, you may need to re-install Sonar to return its registry entries to normal if the registry is indeed the issue.

That is really the only thing I did between this morning when everything worked and this afternoon when I had the issues...  Should I run the main installation or just the latest patch?

Anderton
You can try running the latest patch first to see if that solves the problem. If not, set a system restore point, and un-install/re-install Sonar. Hopefully everything will work, but I can't promise anything because the registry is a strange, dark, and mysterious place and who knows what happened to it...

I installed the complete SONAR and latest patch just over the previous one and all is fixed again...
 
Will use this as a reminder to leave registry alone...

I have seen the installers for codec packs ask if I want to remove what they think are invalid registry entries. Luckily, I read the info before clicking delete and noticed they were referencing the cakewalk dll's for the pro-channel modules and chose to leave them alone. 
 
Be advised! Glad you found a solution.

Any legit site has the potential to have a virus. These forums (running third party code) could suffer from a SQL injection attack for instance (therefore applications security updates are common). Any web page could also link to something dodgy, any page. The fact is right now you probably have absolutely no idea if you have a virus or not.
 
You can install a virus scanner with little impact nowadays and you can exclude folders MS recommends plus get your DAW from any real time scanner.
 
>  the FBI virus, no
 
Not yet, also you may (or may not)  be aware that this thing can travel over network shares and USB cables where your backups are. As there are millions of viruses out there the chances of getting that over the others may be quite slim.
 
The choice is yours of course but I definitely wouldn't do it, in my view virus scanners should be made compulsory by law, I get enough zombies as it is sending me junk mail (mainly from Florida it seems where the old folk don't bother updating and are continuously browsing porn ).