FettsVett
To the OP, Win10 has broken Sonar at least two times for me. The only option is taking your PC offline.

An interesting statement.

If Win 10 broke Sonar once how is it that it could be broken a second time. Do you mean you fixed it the first time and then another update broke something again? Have you been able to fix whatever Win 10 broke?

I haven't seen Windows 10 "Break" anything in Sonar except hose some drivers (that needed to be reset) and hose a couple of Sonars plug ins (for only some Sonar users).

Wrong Thread.

THis is correct, I don't think there's any proof of w10 "breaking" Sonar. It's all the things that make Sonar run smoothly that have been re set by updates. 
We'll see how things pan out. 
I'm running Sonar in W7, W8.1 and W10. All are working just fine and to me there's no differance using Sonar in any of these OS. W 8.1 is my least favourite to use but because I'm not doing much else on the machine and it's mostly off line I get used to the stupid Metro thing. 
But after a month of W8.1 and updates once a week, so far it has not un authorised or changed any settings. What I do like is I can look at the list of updates before downloading and installing. 

z1812
Wrong Thread.

great input! thanks for that! My question relates to Sonar, so I'd thought I'd put in here. First time ever using a forum, I see there's plenty of help and advice from most users. Merry Christmas ;) 

Grumbleweed_
Shouldn't the title of this thread have a question mark rather than come across as a statement?

Grum.

question mark added, just so I don't spoil your Christmas.  :) 

+1 to the comment above about the rollback feature on Win10. I believe it allows the rollback for 30 days after an install, so is an option if an unwanted update gets installed.

SandlinJohn
 
I think the likelihood of Windows 10 killing SONAR in the short term is very low. Long term, though, many of the libraries SONAR used for some core components will eventually be retired, and at some point after that active support in Windows 10 will be stopped. At that point, SONAR might stop working in Windows 10. 

This is ambiguous. Do you mean Windows support for SONAR? That has never existed. It is up to the developer to keep  up with Windows, although for developers with enough clout MS will sometimes fix a fatal bug/update. I doubt that Cakewalk is in that league anymore, so unless the update breaks a lot of installed software besides SONAR, you will be out of luck. There is nothing to indicate that Cakewalk is making any effort to keep its published software up to date, and every reason to believe that there will be no more bug fixes or compatibility updates, so if Windows updates are no longer compatible with SONAR, you will need to run it on a version of Windows that existed prior to the fatal update.
 

slartabartfast

SandlinJohn
 
I think the likelihood of Windows 10 killing SONAR in the short term is very low. Long term, though, many of the libraries SONAR used for some core components will eventually be retired, and at some point after that active support in Windows 10 will be stopped. At that point, SONAR might stop working in Windows 10. 

This is ambiguous. Do you mean Windows support for SONAR? That has never existed. It is up to the developer to keep  up with Windows, although for developers with enough clout MS will sometimes fix a fatal bug/update. I doubt that Cakewalk is in that league anymore, so unless the update breaks a lot of installed software besides SONAR, you will be out of luck. There is nothing to indicate that Cakewalk is making any effort to keep its published software up to date, and every reason to believe that there will be no more bug fixes or compatibility updates, so if Windows updates are no longer compatible with SONAR, you will need to run it on a version of Windows that existed prior to the fatal update.
 

 I think it's rather ambigous to paint a picture of doom and gloom. There's no evidence that Windows will break Sonar in the near term.

I think it's rather ambigous to paint a picture of doom and gloom. There's no evidence that Windows will break Sonar in the near term.



I too would like to believe that all dogs go to heaven, and I agree that for a large number of users, Windows updates have not killed SONAR,  but there is nothing ambiguous about what I posted. I am sitting on thousands of dollars of hardware and software that has not kept pace with Windows updates and is now running, if at all, except on old machines running Windows 2000 and forward that I have preserved in a zombie state to run them. If you have not had this experience, I think you must be a young person. For that, and your untested faith in technological "progress" I envy you.