wgmj
 It is finding my Melondyne now, but its in black and white instead of color. Is that the trial running out on me?

You should have gotten a license for Melodyne Editor with X3 and with Platinum.  Not a trial copy (if you remembered to register).  Could be an indication that there is a problem with your video drivers.
 
Glen

I always used V-Vocal on X3, never cared for Melodyne until I actually took the time to learn how to use it recently. So I may not have registered it with X3 if I didn't use it. I will go look at those logs. Thanks for your time, I do appreciate everything your sharing with me. Hopefully there's an end to this somewhere..lol
 

[link=file:///C:/Users/W/AppData/Local/Temp/tmp4C6A.xml#]-[/link] <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft....n/2004/08/events/event">

[link=file:///C:/Users/W/AppData/Local/Temp/tmp4C6A.xml#]-[/link] <System>
  <Provider Name="Application Error" />

  <EventID Qualifiers="0">1000</EventID>

  <Level>2</Level>

  <Task>100</Task>

  <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>

  <TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-04-26T22:50:49.000000000Z" />

  <EventRecordID>9656</EventRecordID>

  <Channel>Application</Channel>

  <Computer>MyAudioPC</Computer>

  <Security />

  </System>


[link=file:///C:/Users/W/AppData/Local/Temp/tmp4C6A.xml#]-[/link] <EventData>
  <Data>SONARPLT.exe</Data>

  <Data>21.2.0.21</Data>

  <Data>55108ee7</Data>

  <Data>SHELL32.dll</Data>

  <Data>6.3.9600.17680</Data>

  <Data>54dc3611</Data>

  <Data>c0000005</Data>

  <Data>0000000000001987</Data>

  <Data>8f0</Data>

  <Data>01d080733cdd22f2</Data>

  <Data>D:\Program Files\Cakewalk\SONAR Platinum\SONARPLT.exe</Data>

  <Data>C:\Windows\system32\SHELL32.dll</Data>

  <Data>ae541efe-ec66-11e4-8276-74d43556ef43</Data>

  <Data />

  <Data />

  </EventData>


  </Event>
 
Any ideas? What I'm reading online isn't good. I got to do some system scans. and get to bed. 
 

You definitely have things trying to run in 32 bit mode that shouldn't.  Looks like your PC is pretty screwed up (Not Sonar).  It might be time to consider rebuilding your PC from the operating system up.
 
Glen

I'm thinking of going back to Windows 7, I've had nothing but trouble with 8. Or should I take the plunge and gamble on 10? Someone told me once you go to 10 you cannot go back. I'm not a computer genius, I can get around, but as you can see, when it comes to digging in and finding issues, I'm lost. I'm not sure why anything would try to run on 32 bit? I've always installed everything at 64. Can't 64 run 32 bit anyway? Not saying it wouldn't be buggy, but I thought I read that somewhere.?? 

wgmj
I'm thinking of going back to Windows 7, I've had nothing but trouble with 8. Or should I take the plunge and gamble on 10? Someone told me once you go to 10 you cannot go back.

Personally, if you have the opportunity to revert to Windows 7 then I would do that.  You have stated that you are not a computer genius, so it would probably be best to get someone who knows what they are doing to give you a hand with this.

As Windows 10 has not been officially released yet, I would stay clear of that until it is passed the release candidate stage and has been released publicly .  And even when it's released publicly, I would wait for a couple of service packs before putting it on a production machine.

I've already done a complete re-install of Windows 8 on this machine once. For me, the scariest thing is did I save my music correctly? And will it go back into sonar and be ok. I've never been good at moving and backing up files. It just scares me to death. Another issue I'm having with this machine is the SDD and the HDD, the SDD is the boot disc for windows, then I try to put everything else on the HDD. But sometimes installs do what they want even though I've changed the registry to have everything go to the HDD. So, I'm kind of like, well what do I do now? Thats where I get lost. And organizing 2 hard drives is harder than I thought it would be. Anyway, good advice, I know 7 is stable, I use it at work. Now, do I do it myself, or have someone come in and do it for me. That's the question. Thanks everyone, I appreciate all your help. Looks like I have a lot of work to do this week.

Just an update for those of you so generously offering your help. I backed up everything I could last night to my portable hard drive or whatever they're called. I was ready today to do a complete restore to factory specs and start over, but something in me said take one more look at properties, as I tabbed through the properties page something caught my eye. It was a red cicle with an x in it on the Privileges part on Administrator. So I went through and gave full permission to everyone except for the bottom one which didn't need it. I opened Sonar PLT, pulled up a file, opened an audio track and hit record, then I hit the space bar and IT FREAKIN WORKED!!!!!!! OMG!!! Something so simple has had me losing sleep for weeks, I'm astounded. I still need to learn how to better organize my files, but at least its working again. I knew it had to be something dumb, because everything else worked fine. So anyway, Thanks so much for your help, you guys are awesome for taking the time to try and help folks out who are struggling. YOU ROCK  \../ >< \../

What "properties" were you looking at?  I'm having the same trouble now.  Sonar won't open at all right now.
 
Thanks!
 
Donny

Right click on the icon, go to the bottom and click on Properties. Under the Security tab it lists the users and the permissions each one has for Sonar. If I remember correctly I had two administrators listed, one had full access but the other didn't have any, as a matter of fact I think the other one had a red circle with a line through it. So having nothing to lose, I have both of them full access and there it was, it worked just fine. I think this all came about by running the Compatibility program built into Windows. Hope this helps, after I figured that all out, I have had zero issues with Platinum. It's by far the most stable Sonar I've ever used.