yes the dlm that come with firefox or chrome are fine

Roland products used to ship with Sonar X1LE,,  On disk. It was easy to instal and easy to register. Once registered you get all the cool offers from Cakewalk.   I have it and it's only use was to use as a gateway to upgrade to a real version. I found it was a very bad version of Sonar compared to what I had. Even Guitar studio seemed better.
For one there's isn't any usable VST's or even TTS-1. Cakewalk without TTS-1 is a waste of time for me.
 
I guess once Roland used up all those Xi LE DVD's they cheaped out and now just provide a link. And who knows if it works , you might be the first to try it. I would see if there is a forum for the Boss equipment and see what those folks say about it. 
Or you might just try going to a freinds house and use a different computer. ( work?) 
 
Cakewalk should do away with LE and just provide a one month free trail of at least Artist. I think they loose potential customers with LE. 

The most recent version of LE is based on X3.

mjblooze We will get you up and running, be on the lookout shortly for an email from Cakewalk Tech Support and we can take it from there

Phil Slopak [Cakewalk]
mjblooze We will get you up and running, be on the lookout shortly for an email from Cakewalk Tech Support and we can take it from there

Thanks for the help, much appreciated. Been a hectic day with work & spending too much time trying to download stuff. I'll try to find a dlm that works for me (firefox doesn't)...after that, i'll look at some other software that'll suit my purposes. I did use a Cakewalk program at least 9 or 10 years ago (no idea which one)...& it was a dream to work with & at that time i only had a very underpowered PC...no problems. Wish i still had that software..! Thanks again...

Cactus Music
Cakewalk should do away with LE and just provide a one month free trail of at least Artist. I think they loose potential customers with LE.

there's a demo version available on steam

Well so far i cannot complete the download with Firefox or Chrome. I left it to download overnight.....only partially downloaded. I am done with this...no more patience for a download of this size...

Thanks for your help anyway...i appreciate it

If Cakewalk have said they will get you up and running, rest assured they will. That's why I sent a PM to a cakewalk staffer. Only 5 hrs between the request and their response to you here. That's about par for the course and pretty good I reckon.

I'm just a forum member so have no special access to anyone. Should give you a more positive view of the support you'll get here. I'm sure you'll get it all worked out.

Everyone gets frustrated bringing things online, so we all can commiserate and most of us have been there too. The up side is that this forum is immense help and I have yet to see anyone "abandoned" with a legitimate issue. Patience, Grasshopper.