Version 1.2 (final for now) is now available at: https://www.dropbox.com/s/j6o5h6jztammexw/VST%20Settings%20Manager.zip?dl=0
 
Changes:
1 - Right click no longer allows in-place editing of VST name in the menus.
2 - Multiple VST edit windows can now be opened at once.
3 - Additional info shown on VST edit windows (VST ID, Pro Channel/VST, 32/64 bit, filename).
4 - Some additional menu graphics (see (4) below specifically).
5 - On quit/close, you will be prompted if you want to save current VST inventory.  Clicking Yes will save the current list in the registry (per SONAR install); next time this application is run, the current list is compared with the saved list, and new VSTs are identified with a "new plug" icon in the menu.
6 - Some performance improvements (mainly down to (1) above).

KPerry
Version 1.2 (final for now) is now available at: https://www.dropbox.com/s/j6o5h6jztammexw/VST%20Settings%20Manager.zip?dl=0
 
Changes:
1 - Right click no longer allows in-place editing of VST name in the menus.
2 - Multiple VST edit windows can now be opened at once.
3 - Additional info shown on VST edit windows (VST ID, Pro Channel/VST, 32/64 bit, filename).
4 - Some additional menu graphics (see (4) below specifically).
5 - On quit/close, you will be prompted if you want to save current VST inventory.  Clicking Yes will save the current list in the registry (per SONAR install); next time this application is run, the current list is compared with the saved list, and new VSTs are identified with a "new plug" icon in the menu.
6 - Some performance improvements (mainly down to (1) above).

Many thanks Kevin. Appreciate your efforts and generosity. Excellent tool.

Thanks - building this makes me appreciate the complexity the Bakers have to deal with, with interactions between audio objects (like plug-ins) and the user interface to manipulate them, and getting the object model correct...mine is almost certainly sub-optimal, but just about manageable because it's quite a simple tool in comparison to SONAR!

I know I said this was the last release for now, but I remembered I had wanted to add one more flag (whether a VST is VST3 or not) to the plugin popup window, so have done that now:
 
https://www.dropbox.com/s/j6o5h6jztammexw/VST%20Settings%20Manager.zip?dl=0
 
1 - Status bar in VST editor pop-up shows VST/VST3/PC (Pro Channel), 32 or 64 bit, VST ID (if non-zero) and filename
2 - 64 bit options (eg. BitBridge server) now only shown when it's a 64 bit plug-in
3 - Added new option tickbox to automatically backup current VST inventory identifiers (for new VST comparison) so you don't have to click yes each time you quit the application
4 - Options tickboxes now saved on quit
5 - Some internal improvements for extensibility in the future

Significant update (since it's been such a miserable weekend weather-wise!):
 
1 - New name and new download filename
2 - New icons for VSTs
3 - A new menu listing all recognised installations under Utilities menu: currently, all the functions exposed here are Clean History (which removes and no-longer-valid files from the history and re-orders the remaining ones - solves a bug where trying to open a non-existent file from SONAR's recent menu causes a change in the time display options) and lists all recent files by version; a single click on one of these removes it from the list and re-orders the list correctly.
 
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9bgr74x52bpaas3/SONAR%20Utils.zip?dl=0
 
Note: for practical (ie. registry security becomes a pain), this utility will only ever deal with settings under HKEY CURRENT USER, so won't ever allow you to edit, say, the Tools Menu options in SONAR.

Awesome.. downloaded.
 
I tried to open it the other day and it wouldn't run under admin... but my PC had been running all kinds of stuff without reboot for 2 days lol, so I figured it was related to something else on my pc.
 
Thanks for your time.

KPerry
Significant update (since it's been such a miserable weekend weather-wise!):
 
1 - New name and new download filename
2 - New icons for VSTs
3 - A new menu listing all recognised installations under Utilities menu: currently, all the functions exposed here are Clean History (which removes and no-longer-valid files from the history and re-orders the remaining ones - solves a bug where trying to open a non-existent file from SONAR's recent menu causes a change in the time display options) and lists all recent files by version; a single click on one of these removes it from the list and re-orders the list correctly.
 
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9bgr74x52bpaas3/SONAR%20Utils.zip?dl=0
 
Note: for practical (ie. registry security becomes a pain), this utility will only ever deal with settings under HKEY CURRENT USER, so won't ever allow you to edit, say, the Tools Menu options in SONAR.

Hi, thanks for your efforts on our behalf. It's a great little app.

I don't know if it is or even if it could be a problem but there was a program called Sonar Utils a number of years ago written by Ethan Winer. It did a number of different things but the major feature was to add programs to the Sonar Utility Menu. Hence the name Sonar Utils. The author wouldn't update it to x64 and so it fell into disuse. If you like I can send you a copy.

I also forgot:
 
4 - Clicking on the "root" name of a VST list (eg. SONAR Cakewalk VST X64) opens a dialog showing the current VST scan paths.  At some stage, I plan to make that editable.  Just don't hold your breath :-)

This is pretty impressive, Mr. Perry.  Thank you for all your time and effort!
 

sylent
Awesome.. downloaded.
 
I tried to open it the other day and it wouldn't run under admin... but my PC had been running all kinds of stuff without reboot for 2 days lol, so I figured it was related to something else on my pc.
 
Thanks for your time.

You will need/want to run it under the user you run SONAR as or you won't pick up the correct VST inventories.