Unable to Install Rapid Composer

[MixedUpNoise]

This software would be great to try out but I was unable to install the Demo. I have Windows 7, 8GB ram i3core, Intel cpu.

I have installed plenty of software in my day and don't usually have any problem.

After I click the "Finish" button in the installer the app starts to open and I see a message "opening databases... and then I guess it is a Windows error message pops up over the opening app that says-

"There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive
\Device\Harddisk1\DR1."

Then I have to use Task Manager to get out of the installer and get rid of the error message.

I have plenty of free disk space so that would not be the problem.

Can anyone suggest how to get this to work for me?

[dsan@mail.com]

The problem may be Windows blocking the file. This happens frequently and even seasoned users, like yourself, are unaware of Windows blocking the file.

Take a look at this thread: http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... 8&t=394420 and see my post about mid page. Do not allow RC to install right after downloading. Instead, go into the properties tab of the ".exe file and unblock it.

Hopefully this is the issue and following the hints will fix it for you. At this point you may have to completely uninstall and then install to get it to work for you.

FWIW - I have a system similar to yours (i5) and run RC without problems. You should be able to also.

HTH

Happy Musiking!
dsan

EDIT: Also wanted to mention, turn off your antivirus before installing. This too is often an issue. Be sure to turn it back on once you have completed the installation.

[tonedef71]

When I attempt to run the Rapid Composer installer on Windows 8.1, a special alert screen appears that halts the process with a message prompt: "Windows SmartScreen prevented an unrecognized app from starting". I have to click the "Run anyway" button in order to proceed with the install.

EDIT: The following article explains how to disable this "feature" in Windows 8.

[BlackWinny]

Oh yes. We see this each time we try to install in Windows 7 and 8 an application where the "Publisher" is unsigned in the properties of the application.

That's not a problem, you click "Run anyway".

[dsan@mail.com]

FINALLY, MS got smart enough to let us know immediately Windows is blocking a program from installing. The UAC on Vista and W7 would just ask if you want to allow the program to run or not.

I still suspect though that the .exe is still being blocked. I don't have W8 to be able to confirm this.

If the .exe is blocked the full code is not being allowed to install. Only parts of it.

As a result you get errors, crashes, hangs, etc. because the installed program cannot find the code it needs to execute and the error handling code is not prepared for the error it encounters.

Can one of you on W8 confirm if your download is blocked? Right click the .exe (installer) and select properties. If it is being blocked you will see the message in the lower right corner of the "General" tab.

It looks like this on XP, Vista and W7:

Blocked file.jpg

Thanks!

Happy Musiking!
dsan

[BlackWinny]

Hello Dsan
Hello Attila

You're right about the unblock function, Dsan, but here it is not that. It is simply the fact that there is no digital signature in the installer. Check all these answers in a Google request:
https://www.google.com/search?q=digital ... +installer

So Windows simply alerts the user... but it doesn't forbid the installation, we have just to click "Run anyway" and confirm.

It's good to know also that there are tweaks that disable this function (even in Windows 8.1), but at the risk and expense of the user of course:
https://www.google.com/search?q=disable ... +installer

[dsan@mail.com]

Thanks for looking into this BlackWinny and for providing this information.

That's a whole lot of good (and interesting) reading. The lack of a digital signature may be the root cause after all. Although I'm not convinced this is why some have problems installing and running RC, it may well be.

Happy Musiking!
dsan

[BlackWinny]

Thanks for looking into this BlackWinny and for providing this information.

That's a whole lot of good (and interesting) reading. The lack of a digital signature may be the root cause after all. Although I'm not convinced this is why some have problems installing and running RC, it may well be.

Happy Musiking!
dsan

The problems for running RC, no, for that I think that your track (the locked processes) is the good one.

But the (not real since it can be overstep by "Run anyway") problem for installing it, yes, it is sure this one, the lack of digital signature.

[BlackWinny]

And about the locked processes/tasks, it is so true that in fact there are even sometimes several locked instances... more than one. Generally they are subtasks launched by a parent task and which are not perfectly killed by the "garbage collector" (sorry I've been a Smalltalk developer many many many years ago for the development of biology applications so I don't know the jargon of C) at the end of the parent task when some object instances are killed.

[BlackWinny]

For many years I've been using Process Explorer instead of the native Windows Task Manager. Process Explorer provides many, many informations that are totally invisible in the native Task Manager.

Process Explorer, a product of Sysinternals, is totally free. It has been validated many years ago by Microsoft (and Microsoft has even bought Sysinternals in 2006). It comes without any installer (it is just a zip to unzip wherever you want, giving 4 files one of them being the executable). It can be used in addition to the native Windows Task Manager and even replace it if we want (it does it only if we ask it explicitly in its menus). An awesome application for all that it can do but also for all that it can say about the tasks, subtasks, dlls, etc. And it is quite easy to use.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysi ... s/bb896653
(the last release dates of only few days ago)

[dsan@mail.com]

Thanks for looking into this BlackWinny and for providing this information.

That's a whole lot of good (and interesting) reading. The lack of a digital signature may be the root cause after all. Although I'm not convinced this is why some have problems installing and running RC, it may well be.

Happy Musiking!
dsan

The problems for running RC, no, for that I think that your track (the locked processes) is the good one.

But the (not real since it can be overstep by "Run anyway") problem for installing it, yes, it is sure this one, the lack of digital signature.

So if I understand you correctly, while you give Windows permission to install the suspect program via the digital signature permission window that pops up, Windows is then installing a blocked file?

What nonsense (on the part of Windows). The user still has no idea the file is blocked and so ends up with unusable software - crashes, errors, etc. In other words a partial install instead of full code.

Naturally, the user blames the developer for creating a terrible program when all along it is the user not realizing Windows did not correctly install because MS wants to "protect" us.



I'm going to look into Process Explorer as you suggest. Thanks for the info!

BTW - I'm not completely sure what this blocking is all about other than if the software comes from another computer that is not part of your trust list. Obviously we cannot [simply] make a computer on the other side of the world part of our trust network so there are obvious reason for blocking the file.

I notice however that once downloaded one can move the file to another networked computer and the "Blocked" message does not appear. I am sure this has to do with trust levels.

Thanks again BlackWinny!

Happy Musiking!
dsan

[musicdevelopments]

After I click the "Finish" button in the installer the app starts to open and I see a message "opening databases... and then I guess it is a Windows error message pops up over the opening app that says-

"There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive
\Device\Harddisk1\DR1."

Hi MixedUpNoise,

it seems something went wrong during installation. I have never seen such an error message. Can you check if there is a RapidComposer directory in c:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming ?
If not, please unzip the contents of this archive in ...AppData\Roaming: http://www.musicdevelopments.com/CopyTo ... oaming.zip

It would be a good idea to re-download the installer, maybe it got corrupted.
Please let us know...

In the meantime I found this:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/wind ... f0c6486c27

Any chance you have a multiple SD card reader attached to your computer?

Thanks,
Attila

[MixedUpNoise]

Success for now!

Disabled av. Yanked out USB stick that was attached to computer. Unblocked installer under it's right click properties.

Now I just hope it functions as expected. But I feel progress has been made.

Thank you all!

[dsan@mail.com]

Glad to hear MixedUpNoise

Have some fun!

Happy Musiking!
dsan

[BlackWinny]

Good, MixedUpNoise!

Now, don't forget to read these two pages (and "subpages")

• http://www.musicdevelopments.com/tutorials.html
• http://www.musicdevelopments.com/videos.html

And for the bugs already known (and those unknown you could discover) it's here:

• Bug reports

And for the requests to new features it is here:

• Feature requests

but of course after having took a look at the development road map:

• Development Road Map

Welcome in a new world!