You can take me off the list. I pre-ordered Sonar Platinum today...and I can wait until the magic day arrives.

Willy Jones [Cakewalk]
Thanks for the feedback and sharing your solution - we'll look into it.
 
RE: run as admin, C3 will always run as admin it should auto-elevate and ask your permission if you run it as a normal user.
 

SilkTone
I guess I gave CW too much grief in the past to get any special treatment...

Don't be crazy Steven, you know I'll always love you 
 
We actually got a lot more people signing up than we were anticipating so the odds of getting picked got smaller. It's only Thursday though - there is still time.

It's the "signing up" process that has me baffled.  Is that simply entering your name and your email on the buy now screen?

Mod Bod
It's the "signing up" process that has me baffled.  Is that simply entering your name and your email on the buy now screen?

I think that's just for email updates, announcements, etc. In other words, the newsletter.

Baffled as well. Is there something to do other than enter your email on that presage page? I didn't see any further actions available.

No it's actually for the purpose of being in a random draw for a prerelease buy in.

Mod Bod

Willy Jones [Cakewalk]
Thanks for the feedback and sharing your solution - we'll look into it.
 
RE: run as admin, C3 will always run as admin it should auto-elevate and ask your permission if you run it as a normal user.
 

SilkTone
I guess I gave CW too much grief in the past to get any special treatment...

Don't be crazy Steven, you know I'll always love you 
 
We actually got a lot more people signing up than we were anticipating so the odds of getting picked got smaller. It's only Thursday though - there is still time.

It's the "signing up" process that has me baffled.  Is that simply entering your name and your email on the buy now screen?

That's what I did, I clicked on the buy now button and was taken to a page to enter my name and email address.  Anyways, I couldn't stop myself and pre-ordered from JRR because of the 15% discount. I could get Platinum for $126.65 and used Paypal.

A little addendum...
 
Yesterday I opened an old project and a popup from the windows firewall came up asking me to grant permission for Sonar to access my local network.  So, although i'm not sure , maybe this also prevented the C3 from accessing my network drive during installation. 
 
If someone encounters the same problem as described in my OP. Then maybe you should first temporarily disable your firewall before changing registry stuff