[SOLVED] Dorchester Platinum update wants to set Sonar as default MID player

I downloaded the Dorchester updates and now I keep getting a message that Sonar wants to set itself as the default .mid player.  I do not want Sonar as the default.  I have Windows Media Player set as default for .mid files. 
 
I keep denying the change but it keeps popping up. (I have BillP Studio's "WinPatrol" program that monitors all changes and alerts me).
 
The Sonar file that is trying to change the default .mid device is:
"SONARPLT.exe %1"
 
How do I delete Sonar's intrusion?  I hate ill behaving programs that try to set themselves to do something. 
 
 
 Well, I fixed it.  I rolled back to the previous version and then rebooted the PC.  No .mid request from Sonar.  I then reinstalled the Dorchester update.  NO .mid requests.   However, I had to do this on both Win 7 and Win 8.1
 

fireberd
I installed the Dorchester update in my Win 8.1 system, to see if it was a Win 7 issue but its not.  It does the same thing in Win 8.1 so its definitely a Sonar problem. 
 
I have opened a problem report to Cakewalk. CWBRN-32777

For now you should be able to select a midi file and right mouse and then select "open with" and then "choose default program" this should reapply the application you want midi to open with as the default. 

Quick clarification on the above... you are saying that SONAR itself is trying to create file associations each time it loads? Or just during the installation of the Dorchester update?

The message I've getting from Win Patrol is that it is trying to change the default from Windows Media Player to Sonar. 
 
Sonar does not have to be running, I get pop ups from Win Patrol every couple of minutes that it is trying to change.

The Sonar Platinum.exe program is the one that is requesting it.  Win Patrol monitors for any system changes, such as a file type association and reports when another application is attempting to make a change.  And as I have previously posted if you do not have a program that monitors such as Win Patrol you wouldn't know it has happened, unless you had .mid set for some other program and checked the file associations.
 
As I noted I have not had this in prior Sonar Versions (since V7) and ONLY since the Dorchester update.  It is happening in both Windows 7 and Windows 8.1.

Can I clarify one point?
 
You say "Sonar does not have to be running, I get pop ups from Win Patrol every couple of minutes that it is trying to change."
 
How then can SONAR be requesting a change if it's not running?

The report is that "Sonar Platinum" (SONARPLT.EXE %1) is trying to associate itself with the .mid file type.

If Sonar is not running then I'm not understanding how it can request an association change.  I would think that if Sonar's exe file is making the request that it would have to be running to do that.
 
I have never seen sonar's executable file run in my task manager unless I physically have opened it myself (or in the case of older versions where it wouldn't shut down if you still had a MIDI channel open, but that's a special case different from what the OP is describing).
 
fireberd - I'm not trying to say you're wrong, but I would suggest that you search alternate means for the reason this is happening.  and it seems to be happening only to you since no one else can confirm it's happening to them. 

@Beagle - Yes fireberd is not being clear here whether it's happening when Sonar is running or not. He says "Sonar does not have to be running" and yet he says SONARPLT.EXE %1 is trying to associate itself with the MIDI file. I hope he checks #14 regardless.

Well it appears he did do it:
http://forum.cakewalk.com/FindPost/3214454
 
It's really annoying having two threads about the same thing, it just splits the communication.

My comment wasn't forums specific, the end result is still the communication gets split and the left hand does not know what right hand is doing (we are asking the same questions that are already been answered in another thread that we never hear about). Nevermind.