Hmm, have you contacted Cakewalk tech support? You can try calling and explaining that you are a customer of Dancing Dots and that SONAR 8.5 is effectively the latest version we can use at present. Officially, they no longer offer telephone tech support for 8.5 to the mainstream user. You can also try writing to support@xxxxxxxxxxxx for help. I presume you have run SONAR with your USB microphone disconnected? What about uninstalling the drivers for that device until you can get SONAR back up and running? Hope you can get this resolved soon. I do remember that you do not want to run SONAR by using a hotkey such as ALT+CONTROL+S because it somehow triggers that dialog about personal settings. That is, try starting SONAR from the Start Menu or a shortcut on your desktop instead of using a hotkey. Bill -----Original Message----- From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Schucker Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2013 8:59 PM To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ddots-l] Re: It appears I've broken Sonar. Hi Bill. I'm running Win XP SP3, all the essential stuff updated, and for Sonar, the latest 8.5 producer. For jaws, the latest version of 13, since I haven't updated CT to work with 14 yet, gotta get money together first. It also crashes with no screen reader loaded, if started in safe mode, for instance, it brings up the dialogue about copying application data, and when you cancel that, it crashes. I can't get you a sonar version because it keeps crashing, but win is XP SP3, that's all it shows me, and jaws is 13.0.1006. On 8/18/2013 12:21, Bill wrote: > Hello, John, > > It would be useful to learn if SONAR crashes without JAWS running. > Have you tried that? If you have no sighted assistance handy, perhaps > unload JAWS and run Microsoft Narrator to do the talking. > > Please remind us what version of JAWS and Windows you are running. > > Bill > PLEASE READ THIS FOOTER AT LEAST ONCE! To leave the list, click on the immediately following link: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and in the Subject line type unsubscribe For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the immediately following link: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq or send a message, to ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and in the Subject line type faq PLEASE READ THIS FOOTER AT LEAST ONCE! To leave the list, click on the immediately following link: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and in the Subject line type unsubscribe For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the immediately following link: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq or send a message, to ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and in the Subject line type faq