I believe that one can register the DLL through a CMD prompt session - looking into it.

Bob Bone

The error means that the CW100Auto.dll is not registered, for whatever reason.

I am providing the format and some instructions for doing this yourself below - but recommend you consider calling tech support to review the situation with them.  I have seen other posts out on the web for this issue, some for other products and some for Sonar (8.5.3 and X1), so they may well have a quick answer for you.

In the event you want to try to manually register the dll:

Hit Start, then type in cmd, and when you see the CMD prompt show up in the results, right-click on it and click on Run as Administrator.

Once you get to the command prompt type in:
regsvr32 <path & filename of dll or ocx>



which for you would be: regsvr32 C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\Shared Utilities\CW100Auto.dll


Then hit enter, and it will register the dll.


Type 'exit' to close the CMD prompt session.


Please proceed with above preceded by some sort of tequila, and again,consider calling tech support as this error should not occur during installation.  On the other hand, you have already trashed the install, and this will not hurt any other part of your system - it is a program specifically provided by Microsoft for manual registering and un-registering DLL's.

Bob Bone

Thankyou all for your input.

I have solved the problem.  I hope this benefits others.

It seems that my problem was to do with the naming of my various drives and most importantly the fact that for a while now I have been using an SSD for my system drive.  That was called 'D'.  It was effectively a replacement for my old system drive which was called 'C' which remained in the computer.

The system was operating in some weird hybrid state where it was booting from D (the new system drive), but attempting to use the filesystem on C: for all installations

This caused all kinds of instabilities (mainly the windows installer service issues). Although I had the option to install X2 and the X2a patch on my system drive (D) and did attempt to do so, because of the pre-existing install on C x2 was looking for some files on C and they weren't there.

So to those who are suffering from the problem I described, have you got your system installed on a drive that is designated as anything but 'C'?  If so, you might need to change the drive letter of the current boot drive

To do that even if your system is Win7, you must follow these outdated instructions for windows xp or boot from a different install - see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223188


Good luck.  I hope this helps to solve your problem.

robert_e_bone


The error means that the CW100Auto.dll is not registered, for whatever reason.

I am providing the format and some instructions for doing this yourself below - but recommend you consider calling tech support to review the situation with them.  I have seen other posts out on the web for this issue, some for other products and some for Sonar (8.5.3 and X1), so they may well have a quick answer for you.

In the event you want to try to manually register the dll:

Hit Start, then type in cmd, and when you see the CMD prompt show up in the results, right-click on it and click on Run as Administrator.

Once you get to the command prompt type in:
regsvr32 <path & filename of dll or ocx>



which for you would be: regsvr32 C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\Shared Utilities\CW100Auto.dll


Then hit enter, and it will register the dll.


Type 'exit' to close the CMD prompt session.


Please proceed with above preceded by some sort of tequila, and again,consider calling tech support as this error should not occur during installation.  On the other hand, you have already trashed the install, and this will not hurt any other part of your system - it is a program specifically provided by Microsoft for manual registering and un-registering DLL's.

Bob Bone

Thanks Bob...

I know of the registration process, but I've refrained from trying wondering why it might have failed to begin with...

I may try this as a last resort... But I'll have to uninstall/reinstall yet again to do so as I didn't write down the filenames that failed... Simply noted them and ignored... ;-(

Keni

Bumping this thread as I'm having the exact same issues with no resolution.  I'll start a support ticket shortly but just wanted to see if anyone else is still having this issue and/or any other fixes.  FWIW, manually using regsvr32 either 64 or 32 bit doesn't help and still gives me the unable to load dll problem.  X2 installs and runs fine, X2a won't work on my new system.  I just upgraded to an i7, lots of ram as well and fresh install of win7 64bit.  Once I get windows installed the first program I install is SonarX2 so I can't see how X2 is ok but X2a screws up.  I can live with X2 but wanted the fixes and updates in X2a.
Ps, all my error messages are the same as in the original post of this thread.  It's the cw100auto.dll that fails the regsvr32, as well as vs700.dll and midi fx chordanalyzer.dll.  All work in X2, but not in X2a or even in the X2 quick fix patch that came out before X2a.

I have had to use that registration technique in the past for something else.  It worked for me - why not give it a shot for your particular problem.  If it fixes it, great - if not, you wouldn't be any worse off.

Bob Bone

Hi Robert, if you mean the manual regsvr32 technique then yes, I've tried it...  What I don't understand is why Sonar X2 can auto register the dlls fine but X2a kluges it up with no other system change whatsoever...
Ps, there's 2 ways to regsvr32 under command prompt...one is to invoke it from windows\system32\regsvr32.exe and the other is to call it from the 32 bit folder under windows\syswow64\regsvr32.exe.  I've also tried re-downloading the X2a patch a couple of times to make sure it wasn't a corrupted download, but I may do it again with all firewalls and antivirus off...
Thanks again

I wish I knew more about it all - I only know that a while back, I had for some reason one of those kinds of error messages - don't think it was for Sonar, but I looked it all up on the web and tried that manual registration and it fixed my particular issue, so I thought I would suggest your trying it.

So, it is a bit unclear from your post - you have tried it, did it work?  Were there additional things that were not registered?  Can you elaborate a bit on where things stand now?

Thanks, 

Bob Bone

What I tried was to manually use Regsvr32 to register the cw100auto.dll in my shared utilities folder.  It wouldn't work at first because of the space between shared and utilities in the path.  Cmd.exe didn't like that so I had to put the whole path in quotes.  Once I did that, the .dll registered ok.  All good, this is still in X2.  Everything works so I then try to install X2a.  Install goes fine until the very end where it complains that chordanalyzer.dll, cw100auto.dll and vs700.dll can't be registered by regsvr32.dll.  I can manually register the vs700.dll ok from x2a using the regsvr32 command line, but when I try to register the cw100auto.dll I get a new error window saying that "the module cw100auto.dll may not be compatible with this version of windows...", and to check to make sure it's compatible with a 32 or 64 bit version of regsvr. 
So I dunno what changed, but I submitted a tech support report to cakewalk about it and I'll live with X2 for now.

Well I will join this happy group as well
 
Same problem for me when I try to install Sonar X2 (with out the 2x patch installed yet)
 
I even formatted my system and re-installed windows updates, sound drivers and video driver etc etc and it still does not work.
 
Good thing i purchased the CD
 
Matt