After a smooth upgrade from X3e to Platinum my Adobe Audition 3.0 doesn't run.  Well sort of.  When trying to start Audition as a stand alone program, it gives me an error to reinstall the program.  If I launch it "as administrator" it launches and runs as it did before my upgrade.  Not a show stopper, but a pain in the butt.
 
Any thoughts?

The install for Platinum should not touch anything to do with Audition so I would check if you have installed any other updates.

Other than an automatic "Windows 7 Professional" update no other software has been installed.  I haven't looks at that history yet.

 
There may be something shared by both programs ?
Like Visual C++ ?  They both use it.

windows update huh? did you check in the adobe audition forums, because if it was that you won't be the only victim
hth
 

I just upgraded from X3e to Platinum too - and use Audition too.
I found that I couldn't run Audition from the tools menu - because SONAR is 'run as administrator' and Audition wasn't. When I run Audition as administrator (set in them shortcut) - it works from the tools menu!

I never tried it standalone at that point - but everything works now by running both as administrator (Audition definitely runs standalone this way).

I don't know why it should matter - but is it OK for you to just run both as administrator? If so, you should be OK. If not - did you try setting SONAR to not 'run as administrator'? And see if that works?

BretB
After a smooth upgrade from X3e to Platinum my Adobe Audition 3.0 doesn't run.  Well sort of.  When trying to start Audition as a stand alone program, it gives me an error to reinstall the program.  If I launch it "as administrator" it launches and runs as it did before my upgrade.  Not a show stopper, but a pain in the butt.
 
Any thoughts?

You could modify your desktop icon.  Right click on the Audition icon.  Click on "Properties" then go to the "Compatibility" tab and check the box by "Run this program as Administrator".  Try that and see if it works.
 
I see John already mentioned this.... :) .

 
There have been many threads about how running Sonar as administrator will prevent dragging files from Windows Explorer into Sonar.
 
Here's one :  Tools Menu Update
 
 
 

I was initially unable to run Audition from within SONAR after moving to Windows 8.1. I'd get an unhelpful dialog that just said "Cannot create process".
 
I was pretty sure it wasn't a UAC issue because I run SONAR as Administrator. The problem turned out to be that the Audition path was quoted in the ExePath registry value. This was because I'd copied and pasted it from the Audition desktop shortcut. After removing the quotation marks from the path, SONAR had no problem invoking Audition.
 
Although probably not relevant to your issue, I figured I'd throw it out there in case it helps somebody.
 
 

Thanks for the inputs.  Changing the desktop shortcut to admin did work for that.  I haven't tried to access Audition from within Sonar yet.