Three engineers were in a rented car on their way to a conference. The car begain having serious problems so they pulled to the side of the road and stopped. The mechanical engineer said: "No doubt it's something mechanical. I wish I had some tools, I could get us going in short order." The electronics engineer said: "No, these modern cars are all controled by computers and electronics. If I had my oscilliscope and a soldering iron I'm sure I could solve the problem." The software engineer thought for a moment then said: "Why don't we all just get out and then get back in?"

But seriously, Racer, I imagine your brother thinks the driver for playing wave files has been damaged or deleted. If your computer plays other wave files, like the ta-da chord at startup, then you probably don't need to reload the operating system. Check to see if your version of CakewalkPro includes the funtionality you want to use. Perhaps you are using an economy version that has some of the functionality disabled. Another possibility is that you've moved the program from another computer and all the necessary drivers weren't brought over. Sometimes software installation scripts place application specific drivers in the system area instead of keeping them all in the application directory. Sometimes a menu option is greyed simply because some other application event has not occurred such as the highlighting of a selection or something like that.

Good luck,

      - Mark