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Audition 26.0 freeze

Forum|Forum|3 days ago
January 27, 2026
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Audition completely unusable. It launches, displays the Learn Panel, and then freezes within 5–10 seconds. The UI becomes unresponsive: Menu items turn gray, the Learn Panel shows a blue highlight border, and the application stops, freezes my entire system & requires a hard reboot. This happens with every single launch, even after “clean” reinstalls and resets!

I have fully uninstalled Audition, Creative Cloud, and all other Adobe apps. I have manually deleted all Adobe folders in Program Files, Program Files (x86), AppData, (Local and Roaming) removed leftover CEP, CEF, and WebView2 components, and reinstalled cleanly.

Additionally, I have deleted all workspace files (except a custom “NoLearn” workspace created to attempt launching without the Learn Panel,) and edited AuditionPrefs.xml to disable it and set NoLearn as the default. I have deleted recovery files after each crash, and even attempted Shift‑launch to bypass previous sessions.

Further, I have renamed Learn Panel extension folders, added a “dummy index.html” to replace the Learn Panel content, disabled and re‑enabled CEPHtmlEngine, renamed the global CEP folder to force regeneration, and verified WebView2 runtime installation. I’ve reboot MANY times, tested with and without peripherals connected, and “believe” I have confirmed no GPU, audio device, or driver conflicts

Despite all of this, Audition still freezes immediately after launch, always at the moment the Learn Panel attempts to initialize. HELP!

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Digitalsound84

Participating Frequently

Any luck? I am not able to run Audition and it’s freezing on me.

julianosantos3

Participant

I’m having the exact same problem! Both Audition and Premiere are doing this!

I’m losing a client because of this! I’ve tried disabling starting services, updating drivers, opening Audition on a new user on my PC, uninstalling and reinstalling…

I’ve tried Audition 25, same problem.

SteveG_AudioMasters_

Community Expert

Try doing what I suggested above - use the CCcleaner to uninstall Audition and Premiere, and then reinstall both of them. I’m pretty sure that this is an issue with your machine; I’ve just updated a W11 machine here (both the OS and the Adobe software) and it all runs fine.

SteveG_AudioMasters_

Community Expert

What I don’t think you appear to have done is uninstall using Adobe’s CCcleaner tool, which will sanitise rather more than you can yourself… try that first.