Missing Plug-ins/ProChannel modules [Solved]

Hi Everyone, I wanted to share a solution to a recent problem I had with Sonar X3.  I'm still not exactly sure what happened, but the first time I ran Sonar X3 after windows 8.1 was installed crashed and led me to re-install Sonar X3. Anyway, when I tried to open a previous song, I got a lot of pop-up windows for every Pro Channel and VST app I was using.  Said it couldn't find the plug-ins CLSID and I had to click OK.  First time I wasn't too concerned, figured it had fixed the problem.  But no, next time I brought up the same song it would ask me again.  A cakewalk search set me to knowledge-base article 2007013293.    It described my problem to a T.  Apparently its a pretty rare issue and it has to do, of all things, with NTFS 8.3 (short name) file optimizations. My NTFS 8.3 shortnames option wasn't turned on.  The knowledge-base article instructs you to use the fsutil8dot3name set 2 to turn it on.  Well on windows 8 I found that didn't turn it on.  A search on Microsoft's site led me to  fsutil8dot3name set 0.  Apparently windows 7 had one way and 8 has another.  And that is what I wanted to share.  Cheers
 
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Wow. Computer-based recording sure comes up with more interesting problems than "my string broke."