{"id":30503,"date":"2006-05-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/?p=30503"},"modified":"2007-04-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-27T00:00:00","slug":"sibelius-launch-unexpectedly-quits","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/sibelius-launch-unexpectedly-quits\/","title":{"rendered":"Sibelius won&#8217;t launch or unexpectedly quits."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To &#8216;Reset&#8217; Sibelius and the Kontakt Player to the way it was when you first installed it you should:<\/p>\n<p>On Windows:<br \/> &#8211;  Close Sibelius &#8211; you may need to end the task by doing Ctrl+Alt+Delete<br \/> &#8211;  Download this Registry key, and save it to disk, e.g. on your Desktop<br \/> &#8211;  Double-click the downloaded Registry file<br \/> &#8211;  When asked if you want to add the contents of the key to your Registry, click Yes<br \/> &#8211;  Click OK when informed that the contents of the key were successfully added.<br \/> &#8211;  Start Sibelius again and this time Sibelius should start up with no problems. You will notice however that such preferences as the Kontakt Player&#8217;s registration (which you don&#8217;t register again if you have already registered the Kontakt Players) and the Playback and Input devices will need to be set again.<\/p>\n<p>On Mac:<br \/> &#8211;  Close Sibelius &#8211; you may need to Force Quit it by doing Apple+Alt+Escape.<br \/> &#8211;  Go to HardDrive > Users > Your Username > Library > Prefernces<br \/> &#8211;  Drag into the Trash com.sibelius.sibelius4.plist and siblib.plist<br \/> &#8211;  Empty the Trash<br \/> &#8211;  Start Sibelius again and this time Sibelius should start up with no problems. You will notice however that such preferences as the Kontakt Player&#8217;s registration (which you don&#8217;t register again if you have already registered the Kontakt Players) and the Playback and Input devices will need to be set again.<\/p>\n<p>NOTE: This will only effect Sibelius and the Kontakt Players and has no affect on any other program<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[],"tags":[],"storecat":[],"itemids":[29639],"manufacturers":[115931],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Check out the Sibelius won&#039;t launch or unexpectedly quits. page at Sweetwater \u2014 the world&#039;s leading music technology and instrument retailer!\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/sibelius-launch-unexpectedly-quits\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sibelius won&#039;t launch or unexpectedly quits. - SweetCare\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"To &#8216;Reset&#8217; Sibelius and the Kontakt Player to the way it was when you first installed it you should: On Windows: &#8211; Close Sibelius &#8211; you may need to end the task by doing Ctrl+Alt+Delete &#8211; Download this Registry key, and save it to disk, e.g. on your Desktop &#8211; Double-click the downloaded Registry file [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/sibelius-launch-unexpectedly-quits\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SweetCare\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2007-04-27T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/\",\"name\":\"SweetCare\",\"description\":\"Service and Support\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/sibelius-launch-unexpectedly-quits\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/sibelius-launch-unexpectedly-quits\/\",\"name\":\"Sibelius won't launch or unexpectedly quits. - SweetCare\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2006-05-05T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2007-04-27T00:00:00+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/sibelius-launch-unexpectedly-quits\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/sibelius-launch-unexpectedly-quits\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/sibelius-launch-unexpectedly-quits\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Articles\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Sibelius won&#8217;t launch or unexpectedly quits.\"}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"description":"Check out the Sibelius won't launch or unexpectedly quits. page at Sweetwater \u2014 the world's leading music technology and instrument retailer!","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/sibelius-launch-unexpectedly-quits\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Sibelius won't launch or unexpectedly quits. - SweetCare","og_description":"To &#8216;Reset&#8217; Sibelius and the Kontakt Player to the way it was when you first installed it you should: On Windows: &#8211; Close Sibelius &#8211; you may need to end the task by doing Ctrl+Alt+Delete &#8211; Download this Registry key, and save it to disk, e.g. on your Desktop &#8211; Double-click the downloaded Registry file [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/sibelius-launch-unexpectedly-quits\/","og_site_name":"SweetCare","article_modified_time":"2007-04-27T00:00:00+00:00","twitter_card":"summary","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/","name":"SweetCare","description":"Service and Support","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/sibelius-launch-unexpectedly-quits\/#webpage","url":"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/sibelius-launch-unexpectedly-quits\/","name":"Sibelius won't launch or unexpectedly quits. - SweetCare","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/#website"},"datePublished":"2006-05-05T00:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2007-04-27T00:00:00+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/sibelius-launch-unexpectedly-quits\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/sibelius-launch-unexpectedly-quits\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/sibelius-launch-unexpectedly-quits\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Articles","item":"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Sibelius won&#8217;t launch or unexpectedly quits."}]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/articles\/30503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/articles"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/articles"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/articles\/30503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30503"},{"taxonomy":"storecat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/storecat?post=30503"},{"taxonomy":"itemids","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/itemids?post=30503"},{"taxonomy":"manufacturers","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manufacturers?post=30503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}