Burt, I've been a beta tester for 7 or 8 years now. I don't remember the details of RB 2011 other than it worked fine. My systems have always been standard Windows installs, whatever the default is is what I've always used. I install Biab/RB off the discs and now the PG hard drive using the defaults too. Simple. Here's the bottom line:

I've never had any of the problems the computer geeks like yourself seem to have. These programs simply run and run well, that's it. The people who have problems tend to fall into two camps, true noobies who have barely used their PC's for email and web surfing, decided to jump into digital audio and can barely spell MIDI much less understand it. And high level geeks who are all the time messing with their systems, messing around with other OS's, using dubious 3rd party stuff that may or may not run well and other fun stuff like that. Some on this forum can handle all that just fine, understand what they're doing and don't have problems, others don't and have problems.

I have no idea what's with your laptop or your level of understanding but my only suggestion is to wipe it clean, reinstall Windows and start over. You can spend days going on a snipe hunt and finally figure out what's going on if you want but that's what I would do. I guarantee you whatever issues you're having will cease to exist.

Bob

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