error keeps showing up when starting sonar

hi everyone, this has happened a couple times before and had sweetwater fix it but it keeps coming back. anyone know what the hell this annoying thing is and how to fix it?
thanks to you all.
jp
 
 
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I did a search on the error code 0xc0000020 and it returned a LOT of responses for a variety of programs. It seems like the issue is Microsoft-related, although I believe it's a SONAR-generated DDL.
 
Here's what I'd do in your position, which is based on guesswork, not on having fixed it...
 
1. Install the latest SONAR update. Maybe it will overwrite the file and Windows will be happy again.
2. I have SONAR on two different computers. Sometimes when a DLL goes rogue, I copy it from the computer that doesn't have an issue and replace the rogue DLL.
3. If you don't need to do DSD conversions, locate the DLL, change the name to DSDConvert.dlx, and see if SONAR opens.
4. Finally here's the solution that Microsoft seems fond of recommending.
 
Good luck! Hope this helps.

no, i haven't dropped it or opened it. actually, a tech at sweetwater said the same thing about the disk. what a nightmare.

If the disk is about to go TU, would a look at the windows system event log show this up as a bad block error or something like that.

I remember I had a few disks that eventually went TU and this and there were indeed bad block errors in the windows system event log leasing up to the eventual drive failure.

A look at the s.m.a.r.t info wouldn't go astray either....

TU = The drive's mammary glands are pointed at the ozone layer. It's days may be numbered.
CCC = Cakewalk Command Center where you download stuff. 
DLL = Arcane coding stuff that is the life source of your computer. If you play God and screw up when changing it, your computer will instantly turn into a large, expensive doorstop. So do it only when absolutely necessary, and only with very detailed instructions. 
 
Seems like most of making music these days (or doing anything else, really) is just keeping these #$@%$# machines running.
 
Ah, for the good old days of when we were tone-deaf teenagers trying to tune guitars in a garage to a pitch pipe... 
 

thank you, and i'm the same with cars. i can take a $50 repair, try and do it myself than have to bring (tow) the car to a mechanic to find out i ****ed things up so much it's now going to cost $300. that said, what is an "image backup"? i have a 1T external hard drive. is that something i will need?

joey90405
what is an "image backup"? i have a 1T external hard drive. is that something i will need?

An image backup is a backup file that is basically a snapshot of the drive you have backed up.  Having an image backup is handy if you ever have to restore your drive to a previous state.  It also saves you from having to reinstall and configure your Windows operating system and your sonar configuration as the image would contain all of this. 

I use a file based nightly backup, a weekly file based backup of the Windows operating system and the program files and an image of the system drive nightly.  This weekly file based backup does not include the user data itself.

This has got me out of the proverbial on many occasions.

Personally, you might want to get an IT professional to configure this all for you just to confirm the integrity of the backups and to show you how to do a restore if you need to.   (Mind you, you would probably call said person to do the restore)