Cool Edit 2000

[fwillis]

Everytime that I open the program a windows error message pops up saying that the program must close, and asks if you want to send an errors report. Any fixes or will it have to be reinstalled?

 

[Goat Rodeo Cowboy]

Everytime that I open the program a windows error message pops up saying that the program must close, and asks if you want to send an errors report. Any fixes or will it have to be reinstalled?

My guess would be REINSTALL. I think that is a WINDOWS error message, not a COOL EDIT error message. Now, it may be the Cool Edit is the 'bad player' but the error message is probably not triggered by code written by the Cool Edit programmers.

My second guess is that some program element.... maybe a .dll file has gone missing. You might carefully read the error message to see if any additional verbiage gives you a hint why it is bailing out.

 

[fwillis]

This computer was zapped by lightening a week or so back. The sound card and ethernet card were replaced. The engineer installed spybot, and it's been sluggish. I just hate loosing the files

 

[Goat Rodeo Cowboy]

This computer was zapped by lightening a week or so back. The sound card and ethernet card were replaced. The engineer installed spybot, and it's been sluggish. I just hate loosing the files

Whoa, whoa, whoa! I was talking about reinstalling Cool Edit, not Windows and the kitchen sink.

Do one thing at a time. Maybe un-install and re-install Cool Edit. If that doesn't solve anything, un-install Spybot and see what happens. If that doesn't work.... welcome to your nightmare!!!!

 

[pbf1]

I have the same thing happen every few months (on any one of four or five it's installed on).

And, as previously posted, it all comes down to a reinstall of Cool Edit.

(I religiously use SpyBot, too. It's a big, mean, nasty internet out there!)

 

[Studio1]

If that machine was zapped by lightning, it's probably hit the hard drive as well and corrupted a number of Windows system files and/or Cool Edit files.

Re-installing Cool Edit *may* solve the problem - it may not. If it doesn't, I suggest you reformat the drive [you may have a corrupt sector table] and re-install Windows.

It only takes one file to be truncated by one bit of data for things to crash and not function as they should.

 

[amfmsw]

What is your O.S.? I had a wonderful, hard use relationship with Adobe Audition 2.0 in my XP. When I upgraded to a faster computer, it came pre-loaded with Vista. It was a trainwreck. I had the same problem as you, BUT, it wouldn't let me uninstall ALL of the elements of the program to get it right. I had similar problems with other programs.

I finally returned the computer and had a new hard drive installed, with ME installing the elements of Vista I wanted, plus Service Pack 1 from MSN. It works perfect now.

 

[BobOnTheJob]

Worth mentioning that Cool Edit 2000 qualifies you for the much cheaper upgrade version of Adobe Audition...might not fix your problem, but a bargain to be sure...

 

[OttoM]

Worth mentioning that Cool Edit 2000 qualifies you for the much cheaper upgrade version of Adobe Audition...might not fix your problem, but a bargain to be sure...

Wrongo, Bob. Upgrades to Audition 3.0 are now only for those who have a previous version of Audition. Cool Edit users (even CEP 2.1 which was the exact equivalent to Audition 1.0) now have to buy the full version at $350. You might find 2.0 out there somewhere but it's no longer officially sold by Adobe.

 

[Holder]

What about the Direct X...sometimes you need to reintall it or upgrade your version

 

[OttoM]

OP - check this board - you might find the answer or someone who knows for sure what the problem is: http://www.audiomastersforum.net/amforum/index.php/board,9.0.html

 

[SirRoxalot]

If you took a lightning hit, and your computer is now slow, I'd highly recommend replacing the hard drive. Hard drives are cheap, and a dramatic slowdown in performance is an indication that the NTFS file system is working around damaged clusters. Spybot does not appreciably slow down your system.

At the very least, run chkdsk /r and defragment the drive. BE SURE THAT YOU HAVE A GOOD BACKUP BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING ELSE.

The fact that you have at least one damaged program is a pretty good indication that you have corrupted data on the drive. A program like "Drivecopy" or "Ghost" can move your current drive contents to a new drive and avoid a complete recreation of your OS and programs. It might be worth paying your computer guy to do it right.