Hoping someone can steer me in the right direction for help on this. I don't know where else to go to ask for help other than this forum. If this is the wrong place to ask for help with Cooledit2000 I'd appreciate it if someone could point me to an appropriate forum elsewhere.
I've been using Cooledit2000 for many years on several PCs. Has been running fine on my latest PC since I installed it about 5 years ago. Yes, I am a registered user. Am running it on PC with XP Home/SP3, 1 gb total ram.
Haven't used CE for about 5 days or so. Tried to run it today but it won't start - it gives error of "This System has not been configured correctly to run Cooledit. Please run setup again."
I've been trying to get it to work for the last 3 hours with no success, Have tried restoring several restore points in case something was corrupted in the registry (no luck). Have tried running the install file "ce2000_install.exe" (no luck - it installs then goes to run and gives the same error). Have tried uninstalling then running ce2000_install (again, no luck, tries to run itself at end of install but bombs with that same error). I've tried scanning for viruses with multiple scanners (all looks clean).
After install, it even lets me run the registration ce2000_regkey.exe and reenter that stuff no problem, but the program itself just will not run. Something is wrong, something has changed that is affecting Cooledit, but for the life of me I cannot figure out what it is - the partition with Cooledit on it has 2 free gig. My system temp partition has 3gb free. The partitions/directories I had configured for Cooledit's own temp have over 20gb free (although since I uninstalled/reinstalled it that doesn't even matter anymore, since Cooledit must be back to whatever drive it would use by default now, although I can't actually see that setting since I can't get into the program).
I've not installed any new software recently at all, let alone software that might be interfering with CE. I am at my wits end, I really need CE running again (I use it to master my 2 track live recordings).
Can anyone give me any clues as to what I can do to try to figure out what is wrong on this PC preventing Cooledit from running anymore?? Are there any type of logfiles I can look at to try to debug this???
Any help appreciated. I even tried running it in safemode but that just gives the exact same error too.