Running Old Program on XP

[Nightsky]

I am running a music sequencing program designed for Win95 on XP.
It is using 100% CPU resources, and falters when when windows are moved
on the screen,
or when other activity occurs.

Opening the Windows Compatibility Program, returns two error messages
about script errors.
If I ignore them, the Compatibility program opens, but the option boxes
are empty.

I used the manual method for Windows Compatibility Program with no
results.

Can someone offer help?

Thanks

Nightsky

 

[Patrick Keenan]

I am running a music sequencing program designed for Win95 on XP.

What is the name of the mystery program?

It is using 100% CPU resources, and falters when when windows are moved on
the screen,
or when other activity occurs.

Opening the Windows Compatibility Program, returns two error messages
about script errors.
If I ignore them, the Compatibility program opens, but the option boxes
are empty.

I used the manual method for Windows Compatibility Program with no
results.

Can someone offer help?

Probably the easiest and most reliable approach to do is to use a more
modern sequencer that is written to properly run on a modern OS. These are
not hard to find.

HTH
-pk

 

[Nightsky]

The "mystery" program is Cakewalk Professional, version 2.00.
I intended to mention it but forgot.

Of course, I considered a new program, but this one serves me so well,
and I am so comfortable with it, that I am hoping there might be an easy
way to
get it to work better in XP.

I have no idea why it uses so much CPU. I am a fairly competent computer
user,
and can safely delve into the registry, for example, but am far from
expert enough
to debug this situation. I would be willing to try any routines that may
be offered here.

Nightsky

 

[Buffalo]

The "mystery" program is Cakewalk Professional, version 2.00.
I intended to mention it but forgot.

Of course, I considered a new program, but this one serves me so well,
and I am so comfortable with it, that I am hoping there might be an
easy way to
get it to work better in XP.

I have no idea why it uses so much CPU. I am a fairly competent
computer user,
and can safely delve into the registry, for example, but am far from
expert enough
to debug this situation. I would be willing to try any routines that
may be offered here.

Nightsky

Perhaps you could use Virtual Machine and install Win98se which will
probably run that program just fine.
You can Google on how to make Virtual Machine.
PS: Hopefully someone will have a simpler answer.

 

[Patrick Keenan]

The "mystery" program is Cakewalk Professional, version 2.00.
I intended to mention it but forgot.

That is old, yes. The current version is 9, IIRC.

Of course, I considered a new program, but this one serves me so well,
and I am so comfortable with it, that I am hoping there might be an easy
way to
get it to work better in XP.

Some just won't work as you upgrade the OS.

Long ago I used a version of a program called Magix Music Studio, and it
just would not work on XP, and I had to walk away from it.

My old version of Cubase SE stopped working, I think with SP2, (won't work
at all on Vista) and I wound up using a combination of Audactity and the
M-Powered ProTools 7 version.

Audactity is often more appropriate for quickly fixing and reprocessing
audio files, something it can do in seconds where ProTools does a "better"
job but can take hours.

I have no idea why it uses so much CPU.

Because of programming and libraries that are inappropriate for XP.

I am a fairly competent computer user,
and can safely delve into the registry, for example, but am far from
expert enough
to debug this situation. I would be willing to try any routines that may
be offered here.

There is likely nothing more you can do to make this work; you cannot alter
its code, and I would expect that its code interacting with XP is the
problem. Registry settings aren't likely to fix it.

A very roundabout way to do kludge it might be to create a virtual machine
running an older OS using one of the VM engines such as VMWare or the MS
Virtual PC, choosing the one that allows access to your sequencing hardware,
and run it there.

You can also try posting at the Cakewalk forums...

http://forum.cakewalk.com/default.asp

Unfortunately you may have come to the end of life for that particular tool.

HTH
-pk

 

[Unknown]

Do you have 'disable script debugging' checked in internet
options---advanced?

 

[Patrick Keenan]

Perhaps you could use Virtual Machine and install Win98se which will
probably run that program just fine.
You can Google on how to make Virtual Machine.
PS: Hopefully someone will have a simpler answer.

Unfortunately that may actually *be* the simple answer.

I'll just note that some virtual machine managers, like some versions of MS
Virtual PC, cannot communicate with some hardware (like USB ports), so if
the sequencer is trying to talk to a MIDI port on a USB adapter, it can't do
so.

Alternately, the simple solution might be to find a good used P4 system for
$150 or so and put Win98 on it.

-pk

 

[Nightsky]

It is checked. What will unchecking do for me?.

Do you have 'disable script debugging' checked in internet
options---advanced?