Sony Products hang on execution.

[dfgh11]

Hi,

Whenever I load up either Sony Soundforge 7 or Ony Vegas 6.0b, the splash screen appears, disappears and then nothing happens until literally five minutes later, when the program loads.Any ideas what this could be ? Thanks

Basic System Specs:
AMD FX-60
2GB RAM
VIA K8T890 chipset
Geforce 7900 GTX

[guns1inger]

Don't know about SF7 - never had any problems with it - but with Vegas 6, the media catalogue (which is essentially a SQL Server database) can slow down the loading times. If you don't use it, you can disable it in preferences, then uninstall it completely. I would start by disabling it, just to see if it is the cause.

If it isn't, defrag the HDD, and monitor your task manager while these programs load.

[dfgh11]

I tried all these. I even tried reinstalling my operating system (XP) but it still takes forever to load.Thanks for your response though.

[ROF]

Have you tried contacting Sonic Foundry? I had an issue when upgrading to Sound Forge 7 which caused a similiar issue. I forget what the solution was but within 5 minutes I was up and running again.

[dfgh11]

I haven't yet no. I thought it was best to do a little research of my own first. But thanks, I think I'll go do that now.

I have noticed that as a result rundll32.exe hangs whenever I shut my computer down. And every time I load vegas up rundll32 loads and doesn't close down when vegas closes, so I end up with loads of them.