Hi Greg and welcome to the forum. You'll likely notice the Cakewalk forum and this forum have many members in common.

Antivirus programs also tend to slow Band-in-a-Box and RealBand's initial start up times or prevent the programs from starting up. You need to go to your antivirus program settings to exclude the Band-in-a-Box and RealBand programs from being scanned each time they are scanned.

The programs to exclude are BBW.exe for Band-in-a-Box and RB.exe for RealBand.


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