Cool Edit 2000 and Windows 10

I have a purchased Cool Edit 2000 and Cool Edit Plug-Play Pro. I installed it on my new Dell Laptop with windows 10, And I put in my purchase code, it works and it opens. But when I try to record anything it still works as a Demo with dings. And I know I put it in correctly, cause it tells me it did, that I succeded and need to run once for it to take . But it still won't get out of demo mode. Can anyone help me. I have the ce2reg.exe to register it. That works fine except the purchased version won't get out of demo mode. PLEASE HELP.   I've done this for severl years and different pc' and it has always worked. I bought this in 2002 and never had a problem before. I love this software and feel lost without it. I hope someone out there knows how to trouble shoot this problem.

I have installed Cool Edif 2000 on Windows 10 pro, It's OK, it's the trial version. It's the normal way.

 

I click on "buy now" to enter my ID, but in this window "enter serial number" is grayed.

 

What am I doing wrong?

By @361868

I wonder if anyone here can advise me? I have a registered copy of CE2000 which I have had since the year 2000 and have installed successfully on many pcs with most versions of Windows since then. I recently replacced my studio pc with a 2nd user Acer desktop purchased with a Windows 10 Pro licence which I activated. When I installed CoolEdit 2000, it all proceeded normally with no error messages or warnings.However, when I attempted the first run prior to registering, a message box told me that the program was not correctly installed on this machine and advised me to run the set-up again. I have tried this an d got no further. I even ran the C2Kreg program and registered the installation but still it won't start. It gets as far as briefly showing the Splash screen and then reverts to the same errror message. The version of Windows 10 pro is 2004. I also have an Acer swift laptop running Windows 10 Home version 1903, so I tried installing CE2000 on that and had no problem at all. It loaded, accepted registration and runs perfectly.

Can anyone suggest what the problem might be with the Windows 10 Pro installation?  I have since successfully installed Cool Edit Pro versions 1.0 and 2.0 both of which will run ok although version 1.0 does bring up the same error message unless I right click the icon and open it as administrator. That works for Cool Edit pro 1.0 but not for CE2000. CE pro 2.0 happily runs without the administrator step.

The fact that the error only appears after the programs, in both cases, have begun to open, suggests that there is a problem with a setting or a file that is checked at a late stage during the startup but I am unable to discover anything further.  I could just accept the Cool Edit Pro installation but I actually prefer CE2000 for the work that I do ( mainly transfers from tape and vinyl with some minor editing and noise reduction) and I have become familiar with it. Any suggestions or advice would be appreciated. Thank-you

John

An unlikely combination so I am not sure that you will find many people with any experience of your set up. However have you tried to install CE2000 either as Administrator or in compatibility mode?