Windows Update can be a GIANT pain, but it will eventually get them all.  Hang in there, 
 
Bob Bone
 

Hi,
 
Sorry, I don't have the specs att hand. I will update my profile asap.
 
...and for hijacking the thred but I was sure it was all about sonar crashes on close??!! ;)
I even had the high hopes on narrow down the search field to something about running Sonar with mixed 64/32bit vsts....
 
But..nooo
 
I'll go pad my pet polar bear ;)

Ohh..maby I was unclear..
 
If I'm running mixed 64/32 sonar crashes on close.
If I'm running all 64 bit sonar seemes to close just fine.
 
(and yes I did survive my pet...)

Uf the problems are occurring when 32-bit plugins are present, it is quite likely that one or more of them are the culprit.
 
There were quite a few cases of this kind of issue.  It used to happen to me, but I went through a process of firstly trying to use as many 64-bit plugins as possible, and then when any 32-bit ones were needed, I made sure that each one worked OK in 64-bit Sonar.
 
What I then did was to move those 32-bit plugins that worked OK to a brand new sub-folder within my existing 32-bit plugin folder, and ONLY allowed that new sub-folder to be added to the search path in my 64-bit Sonar install.
 
This eliminated crashes and freezes and all of that for me.  Since then, I have literally just in the past week or so finished moving completely to 64-bit 3rd-party plugins, and have had nothing but smooth sailing.
 
You may consider picking up an alternative to the BitBridge routine that comes with Sonar.  It is the software that 'bridges' between 32-bit plugins and 64-bit Sonar.  Some people that have had prior issues with certain 32-bit plugins in 64-bit Sonar, using BitBridge, have reported those problems going away when they purchased JBridge, which is a 3rd-party bridging application.
 
Oh, if you have a 32-bit Sonar installed, it will still find any plugins that you move into that new sub-folder I refer to above, as Sonar automatically detects any sub-folders in the search path.
 
I hope any of the above both makes sense and is helpful, 
 
Bob Bone

Thx,
 
Great advise.
I'll go through all my 32 bit vsts and try to figure out which ones playing nicely in Sonar64.

 
Ahh, JBridge. Never heard of that one. I will look into it.

Here is a link for JBridge:
 
http://jstuff.wordpress.com/jbridge/
 
You might start with the 32-bit plugins you use the most frequently, and once you find out if they work OK, you will be at least able to move those into a new sub-folder, like I was talking about, and that will give you a few you are likely to want to use.
 
Then, you can explore other 32-bit plugins as time and need arise.
 
I created a sub-folder within my 32-bit VST Plugins folder, called Certified-x32-Plugins, and moved the ones that worked in x64 Sonar into that folder, then added that folder path to my x64 Sonar search path, making sure the main 32-bit VST Plugins folder was NOT included there.
 
Hope this works for you - and JBridge may also work for some of those problematic 32-bit plugins as well.
 
Bob Bone
 

I have all of the latest Microsoft updates. I have one 32-but plugin (Cube 2), and I use jbridge. For me Sonar X1D often crashes when closing a project.  In these cases, I select "close program" from the error panel; Sonar appears to close. However, in these cases, the sonarpdr.exe process is still running, and it will not close when instructed to do so in Task Manager. The only way I can invoke Sonar again is to reboot my PC.
 
I also notice that, some times, when opening a project, much of Sonar goes white, and " ... nor repsonding" is displayed in the upper left. Eventually, the project loads.

Hi mcdonalk,
 
An alernative to Task Manager is another "MS prog", from the sysinternals suite, called process explorer. It's a bit more powerfull and informative than the usual Task Manage. The process explorer, even run in admin mod, will probably not help you with the sonare close crash but can help closing the sonarpdr.exe and give a clearer pic of what's running in your system.
 

mcdonalk
I have all of the latest Microsoft updates. I have one 32-but plugin (Cube 2), and I use jbridge. For me Sonar X1D often crashes when closing a project.  In these cases, I select "close program" from the error panel; Sonar appears to close. However, in these cases, the sonarpdr.exe process is still running, and it will not close when instructed to do so in Task Manager. The only way I can invoke Sonar again is to reboot my PC.
 
I also notice that, some times, when opening a project, much of Sonar goes white, and " ... nor repsonding" is displayed in the upper left. Eventually, the project loads.

 
You might be able to use MS DebugDiag tool in hang mode to report on the running threads of the process, log a case to cakewalk support and send them the report, cakewalk may identify the issue and they may find a workaround or even a fix, if they find a fix then next release X1 update should provide the fix...