I get RED X icon when it ry to open Standalone Kontakt

The issue is this: After upgrading to Windows 11, each time I click on the Standalone Kontakt icon, Kontact does not start up and only I see what you see in this photo. Is like Windows cannot find the exe. But Kontakt in Native access appears installed fine. It is a registry issue but I do not know a good workaround there, I just did the registry troubleshooting that is proposed in NI support and also I downgraded to windows 10 and reinstalled Kontakt but no solution. A Cubase or Reaper project that includes Kontack it crashes and I'm asked to kill the plugin.

EvilDragon

Try uninstalling Kontakt again and then manually clean up relevant keys from registry. So, press Win+R and type regedit.exe, press Enter. Then navigate to and delete these keys:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Native Instruments\Kontakt Application

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Native Instruments\Kontakt Application

Then try reinstalling.

conmarcos

Hi, I deleted the Kontakt Application KEY in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Native Instruments\, but after this in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Native Instruments\ there is no Kontakt Application KEY .Only i see Kontakt instruments , Kontakt Factory libray and Kontakt Factory selection KEYS.

EvilDragon

Alright, no matter. What happens after reinstalling now?

conmarcos

The same issue.

conmarcos

But know i have Kontakt Application KEY in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

It seems that the Key was deleted because i uninstalled Kontakt.

EvilDragon

Ha, no idea what's up with this to be honest. I would roll back W11 maybe. :)

conmarcos

Hi, i m already back to Windows 10 and no solution

Uwe303

I can confirm that kontakt works on win11, sometimes only a fresh install of windows is a solution, you can also try to create another user and start kontakt there's but you have already rolled back

conmarcos

Thanks, i will try with another user.

conmarcos

In other user, Kontakt opened but then I get this message and then closes.

get the message that you can see in the pic

Blindeddie

post a screenshot of the following Registry key... (the first 10-20 lines would be fine...)

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Native Instruments\Kontakt Application

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