It Never Did That Before...

Now here's something you don't get to do every day: I spent part of yesterday evening mixing concrete to close up a couple of holes a groundhog has dug under my front stoop. I'm leaving one hole open to let him leave after I toss some repellent in there for him, but I closed the others. It's been a long time since I did any concrete work, and my back wasn't happy at all with the prospect. But, it's done and off the "honey do" list.

As I mentioned yesterday, I'm now in the process of trying to set up equipment and stuff that came over from the old house, and it's causing me fits already.

The gripe of the day/week/last couple of months has to do with Adobe Audition 3. Now, I like Audition quite a lot. I've liked it since it was CoolEdit back before Adobe bought it. But right now I don't like it at all. Not one little bit.

Why? Because the first time I tried to run it after setting the computer up in its new digs, Audition claims (even though I've been running it on this machine since it came out) that "Audition cannot start because it is not correctly installed. Please reinstall and try again." So I've uninstalled and reinstalled several times, to no avail.

A friend suggested that I try creating a new Administrator-level account on the computer (Windows XP Pro) and use Audition from there. Apparently the problem has something to do with how Audition saves settings and config info for the current user. So I tried creating a new user account and running Audition there.

Nothing.

Same result.

Now, there's another interesting tidbit that may or may not be related: when I start the machine (or logout and log back again), there's a Windows error that says the Microsoft Process Kill Utility (kill.exe) could not start. According to some search results, opinions are opposed as to whether this program should be trying to start by itself. However, I also have no "remove" options when I look at the programs list in the Add/Remove Software control panel.

It may be time to replace the hard drive on this thing and start over--the machine is about 5 years old. I don't relish the thought, but right now I can't get anything done.

If you have any thoughts about any of these problems, please drop me a note. I'd love to solve a problem and sing your praises here on the blog.