Scanning Problem

Does anyone know how to stop MC4 scanning itself to death before it opens???

Often enough I get a windows error report that comes along just before it eventually opens.

Thanks in anticipation

Yes. Open the Plug-in manager.
You will see a checkbox where you can select not to run the Scan at start-up.
The nect time you open the program, it will skip the scan.

no it's not necessary to run every time you start. but if you add a new plugin you'll have to run it manually if you turn it off for startup.

The problem persists with an average scan time of about 2 minutes, even after switching the scanner off. (Using button on bottom left of scanner screen)
New message reads uninstal reinstallation windows service pack 32dll as it cannot find a crucial DLL component,

Update: reinstalled programme without success (still scanning) ...
Maybe the message means reinstall windows instead of MC. I'm going to have to do this as the programme has decided not to open at all now
Oh the joys....

I've 32 VST's Bob, Don't know if thats consedered a lot or not. Woulddn't have thought so.

The prob started imediately after the download and installation of Jamstix (Will contact Ralph ant JS and see if he has come across this before.)
Another alternative is I've had a visit from a rather nasty bug through the internet system.

Either way its maybe time for me to put it to bed for a while at least until I upgrade to HS7XL after Christmas.
Thanks for all your help boys been really appreciated.

WHAT A NUMPTY, I AM,...WAS IN THE WRONG PLACE...HAVE FOUND AND DISABLED SCAN...
MC4 Comes in fine now...although there is still something in there rumbling about that shouldn't be.

I can finish my project and the look at full re-installation of the hard drive a little later on....

i've never heard of a problem like that before. which OS? and which version of MC do you have again? which FX are you trying to use?

Windows XP with a super duperAMD processor, 120 gig hard drive, 3.4 gig memory. More than enough really...

ooooh, reformat.....
Sounds so serious and terminal and stuff
I'll bring a six pack and watch over your shoulder, this could be fun
Later
Albert

So I see we will need one of them Bush thirty packs...no problem
Later
Albert

ugh. remember the "bitter beer" commercials? Busch beer is what I think of when I saw those commercials!

Am pulling the plug on Cakewalk tonight and will start a fresh tomorrow with a reformatted hard drive....Its since I installed JS that the problem started Herb...I ain't qualified enough to say it was JS it just happened right after I installed it.
What a bummer.

Hi Herb,
I plan to have a chat with Ralph sometime tomorrow...The time difference makes it a bit difficult. My work involves computers to a degree and I've a reasonable degree of knowledge, you're right I don't open emails from Zimbabwe or anywhere else unless I know the contacts details before hand. It's the first bug in over 12 years of computing

Symptoms on my machine now indicate that the problems go far beyond Jamstix and I have no option but to reformat.
I only hope I can get the Cakewalk up and running again without too many headaches. Fortunately I've a little more experience and it shouldn't be as problematic as when I first started.

Hope I don't lose any projects I am working on....Think I have saved all the necessary files.

Thanks for getting back anyway ...... Speak Soon

Copy that.
It's a royal pain in the rear, but I reformat every year or two.
Registry cleaners and virus scanners only go so far. They all miss something.
Starting out on a fresh machine is really nice.

Note of caution...make sure you have all of your account activation/passwords/unlocking code/serial/numbers written down somewhere. How many times we see people can't find their original cd case with the serial number, after they re-loaded from the original cd, if ya know what I mean. Probably don't have to tell you, but then, it is funny the things we think of, nad the things we forget to think of, and the things we forget...huh? Lost my train of thought....
Later
Albert

You were spot on Albert..
Thought my registration code was my serial number...Oh well Cakewalk customer support here I come