Getting Desperate!!!

If I don't get an answer to this problem very soon I'll be destroying a less than a year old HP Windows 10 desktop PC!!!
I mean to tell you I will throw this **** out the window if I don't soon get an answer as to why this POS will not download and install CbB!!  I download, install & run Bandlab Assistant, then pick Cakewalk, and the damned thing just keeps on flashing "Downloading 0/2".
 
I have tried running as admin and disabling my security program.  I must have tried this at least 10 times now to no avail!!
I have CbB on my dedicated Windows 8 PC for music production with no problem.  I want it on this PC to work on music ideas in my bedroom.
 
Could it possibly be that I haven't run any windows updates for several months?  I got tired of them taking up my usage for an hour or more every other day only to slow my PC down more and more.  Do you think re enabling the updates would help?
 
If I don't get a solution by tomorrow at this time this piece of garbage will be in the trash tomorrow night at this time!  I'm serious.  This has been going on for weeks and I've had it!!
 
Thanks!
John B.
 
 

I can try to help... if you have tried this already, forgive me, but this might work. I always open the folder where the download goes, and when it's done downloading, installation will start, but before I install, I go to C:\Users\MAsaph\AppData\Roaming\bandlab-assistant\Downloads and copy the Cakewalk installer exe and paste it in a storage folder, so I have it. I do have the installer exe which is about 600 to 700 meg and can wetransfer it to you, then you should be able to just run the installer and be up and running. I would think that this would work, I hope.... it's worth a try, if you want. Just PM me, or if you know someone else with the installer, get it and try. Let me know.

>"Downloading 0/2".
Could be your Bandlab download folder is corrupt or for some reason has the wrong properties.
 
Check to see if the folder that Bandlabs uses as the download location exists and if you have full right for that folder:
C:\Users\<YourUsername>\AppData\Roaming\bandlab-assistant\Downloads
 
You should have full control of that folder - if not, take ownership and assign yourself full control.
You can paste the following in Windows Explorer to take you there:
%appdata%\bandlab-assistant

Its not the PC or Windows 10's fault.  I have CbB installed on my main DAW PC (Win 10) and two laptops with Win 10.  CbB is not OS version dependent so even though you don't have the latest Win 10 it will work OK.
 
I would do as suggested, install BandLab Assistant. RESTART THE PC (don't skip this step or the original problem can still be there) and then start over by downloading BandLab assistant and try from that. 
 

Ummm...I would try running the Windows Updates first, and see what happens after that. There have been some "important" (whatever that means) updates these last months. If you have not been updating Windows, maybe you have a problem there.

John
I have had issues with new win 10 install but never about downloading anything. I have many posts in computer forum asking about win 10 and such. I am a retired microsoft tech but really ended my career at Win XP, so quite a while ago. 
I have not had to do anything special to download anything. 
May I ask what service you use, I use Comcast. Also you really need the updates. I just delay the updates so I get to choose when to install.
As to how to save the exe of CWbyBL the path that the steven put in his post is it:
C:\Users\<YourUsername>\AppData\Roaming\bandlab-assistant\Downloads. It is a hidden folder so you have to change the view options to see the appdata folder.
But that will not help you since you can not even download it.

stratman70
You could re download the bandlab CW app again on your Win 8 pc, copy it to a thumb drive (it's only about 560mb)

 
Funny seeing "Only 560mb" -- My first computer with Cakewalk on it had a whopping 20 MB hard drive... my how things have changed!
 
Sadly, I have no advice for Johnbee58. I can add that while my main system is Windows 7 Pro 64 bit ... I do have CbB working on my Windows 10 tablet as a mobile "Noodling" tool. I don't have the very latest update (build 1809) - the one Microsoft aborted because of issues - but it is reasonably current (build 1803) and this works fine.

There have been a lot of threads with folks having issues installing Bandlab assistant. My opinion is it is a bit buggy. All these threads were resolved with " I don't know what I did, but it finally worked on the 5th try".   

Before any of your reinstallation attempts did you first delete the Bandlab folder:
C:\Users\<YourUsername>\AppData\Roaming\bandlab-assistant ?
 

I'll try one more thing.  When the update come out next month I'll cop the cakewalk.exe file off of my Win 8 PC (music dedicated PC) and bring it over to this Win 10 POS and try to install it that way.  But I'm not very hopeful that it will be successful.
 
JB

You might try this:
 
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17588/fix-problems-that-block-programs-from-being-installed-or-removed
 
Bill

Thanks all.  I really wish that Micro$oft would leave their damned operating systems be.  I know we need more features for technology's sake but could they do it without making so much changes to how the basic program works?  When I got the Windows 10 PC back in January to replace my old (and faithful) Windows XP machine I spent most of the first week having to update.  At first it was nice and fast but slowed down with every upgrade.  Then, the Mail program really screwed me.  I entered about 30 names into the address book and after one of their many upgrades I lost access to them.  I had to install another email server to use an address book.  I don't mean to make this a PC OS thread, but I'm just venting how much I hate Windows 10.
 
JB

HP Laptop and things to consider. Depending on your model, HP can install its own communicative applet within the OS or even the BIOS. Bandlab is meant to be a two-way "thingy". If so, might be conflicting with address ports.
But, this is just a hunch of mine.
Saying so, can you get to Cakewalk Command Center and try downloading Sonar Platinum.

install fiddler and/or wireshark to see if it's breaking on the network communication

Any kind of internet activity tracking reflector could be causing the problem as well. That's what happened to me when it was impossible to install the XLN audio installer. 
 
I forget exactly what I did, but I went somewhere into Windows 10's internet pages and found something suspicious. When I removed it, I could download okay.