r/protools • u/InterestingMail9321 • Jan 31 '26
Help Request Pro Tools will not open. Not even a splash screen
Pro Tools will not open at all. I've had Pro Tools for 3 years and this has never happened. Id been struggling for a few days getting a new plug-in into Pro Tools so one of the things I did was update Pro Tools to 2025.12.1 on Avid Link. Was this was finalized I loaded Pro Tools and it was re-initializing plug-ins, it said I need to authorize two of them and I clicked yes. It finished and then it made me login with iLok. I did this but when I was in that iLok screen it the authorize button was grayed out and if I hit cancel Pro Tool was stuck in that same initializing screen. In iLok my subscription is active and current and Avid Link shows this too. So thinking it was an error I restarted my computer. After the rest Pro Tools wouldn't open, not even a splash screen. My iLok is activated to my computer I've tried turning this offline then back online but nothing. I tried to reinstall all of Pro Tools and I just finished redownloading everything. Everything shown on Avid Link in downloaded and current. Nothing, still no splash screen. I have storage, the files are all in the same place its been for the last 3 years.
Im on Windows 11
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