Hi PhillyJazz,

Firstly, my experience is that if you reinstall on the same machine, it's not necessary to activate the program again. That being said, if there was a problem, simply contact PG Music and ask for your activation to be reset (with a brief explanation of what caused the problem). They will have all your records and know that your request is legitimate.

When you say that you've tried running the program as "Admin", how did you do this? The process that seems to work best is to right-click on BIAB's shortcut (or BBW.EXE), select "Properties" from the menu that appears, and then set the "Run as admin" option that's found under one of the tabs.

I tried to replicate your problem but I couldn't.

Another thing you could try is to deactivate the User Account Control. You don't have to leave it off but by deactivating it and then running BIAB, it will be possible to determine if it's a permission problem.

  • e.g. if everything works with UAC off, then that narrows down the problem considerably


Once this has been tested, simply turn UAC back on again. (It's found under the Control Panel.)

Regards,
Noel

P.S. Windows will probably throw up a few warnings about turning UAC off (it's part of Windows' antivirus routine).

MY SONGS...
Audiophile BIAB 2025