Sound Forge Pro has been working fine for a while but now when I try to launch the program, I get, "Registration of Sound Forge Pro 10.0 requires elevated privileges."
Ah, the good ol' days of the 'elevated privileges' problem that beset SoundForge Pro 10 and 11 for some users, me included.
The fix for this is by making a change to the Registry as follows:
- Open regedit
- Find the key named ''HKEY_USERS\XXXXXX-XXXX_Classes\VirtualStore\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Sony Creative Software"
- Delete the key [if there is a folder under Sony Creative Software called SoundForge 10 or the like, then that is the registry key to delete]
- Close regedit
When re-opening SoundForge Pro, the Registry key will be re-populated.
The key name 'XXXXX-XXXX' is a number unique to your machine.
As always with the Registry, it's a good idea to save the folder (export option) to be deleted so it can be reinstated just in case.
From memory, the 'elevated privilege' problem cropped up around every 4 weeks or so so the registry edit became second nature back then.
As @condex stated ," the 'elevated privilege' problem cropped up around every 4 weeks or so so the registry edit became second nature."
See this recent thread that has links to everything you will ever want to know about and fix the 'elevated privilege' issue. (a result of ... some ... Win 10 updates)
I've had several different Sound Forge Pro registration problems, which Magix has been really good about walking me through, but the problems just keep coming and I don't want to mess with it any more.
WIW, Magix and most other versions of SF do not have the elevated privilege issue, it is primarily with SF Pro 10 and less so with AS-10 and Pro 11, nor is it uniform for every Win 10 PC
Consider upgrading to SoundForge Pro 14 which is currently on an upgrade offer of $149 USD until 22 November. Of course, there may (or may not) be a Black Friday offer thereafter.
Besides overcoming the elevated privileges issue, SFP14 offers a choice of 4 interface colors from white to dark. The older versions of SFP were very hard on my eyes after long use of SFP because of the intensity of the white workspace. It has been so much easier for my eyes with SFP13 and 14 because using the dark workspace has dramatically reduced the contrast and glare. And the waveform colors are selectable though the range of choice by the slider control is a bit limiting
I'm guessing it's an anti-piracy feature Sony engineers added that goes in and monkeys with the registry. The programmers could not know, however, what changes Microsoft might make to Windows in the future that would lock out legitimate users who paid full price.
condex wrote: "Consider upgrading to SoundForge Pro 14 which is currently on an upgrade offer of $149 USD until 22 November."
Thank you but I'm going to cut my losses. I had too many reliability issues with SoundForge.