(I can't make heads or tails of all the identical looking forums with their own login for different apps in the Vegas Pro Suite, so I'm just asking here in off-topic.)

Sound Forge is unusable since on every launch it re-scans all VST's. I run a recording studio, and have thousands of VST plugins. It scans forever, and then crashes Sound Forge on some Softube plugins.

Since Sound Forge isn't operatable while it's doing these scans, there's no way to get into the preferences and remove the VST directories from the list.

As I mentioned in another Post, Vegas does this too, but I got lucky one time and was able to get into the preferences and remove the VST plugin folders. No such luck with Sound Forge. Strangely, the first time I used Soud Forge it looked like it completed the scan after 40 minutes or so, and worked normally that one time. Ideally I'd like to have my VST's available in an audio program, so it didn't occur to me to remove the VST folders in preferences while I could, but at this point I just want to remove the VST folders from the scan.

Is there a preferences file somewhere I can edit as text?

Thanks!