VST Synth Not Detected

I've recently installed Sonicbits' Exakt Lite synth, but despite repeated tries, I can't get Reaper to detect it. I've contacted the developer, who's given me some advice to try getting it to work, but to no avail. I'm working with Reaper V6.13 on 64-bit Windows 8.1. Anybody else having trouble with the most recent version not recognizing VSTs?

And have you checked your plugin folder to make sure that Exakt Lite is actually there? Did you put it there yourself, or was it placed there by a .exe installer?

Done, done, and done. Still not working. The .dll file shows up during the cache re-scan, but it still isn't appearing on the list of recognized VSTs. I've no idea what I'm doing wrong. :(

Windows tried maybe a little harder than usual to block it, but otherwise, I had no difficulties installing Exakt Lite 64 bit VSTi and VST3i. This is one of those installers that installs program files, not just the VSTi dll & VST3i files.... Did you download everything to the default locations (for VSTs, this shouldn't matter)? Did you check that the program itself is at ? EDIT: ^ Doesn't matter. It's only a pdf manual, an installer log and 2 uninstaller files anyway. Have you tried running the installer again?

I've run the installer again. Still nothing. :(

I'll understand if you want to give up, BTW. I mean, how good is this synth anyway? Me, I'm not ready to give up just yet.

Done. Still nothing.

If you're still in this game, let's get serious. Intelligence op: Go to C:\Users\*Your Name*\AppData\Roaming\REAPER Locate reaper-vstplugins64.ini Open it in notepad. Find ExaktLite (probably at the bottom) I've got.... ExaktLite.vst3=005A746E365FD601,385997997,ExaktLit e (Sonicbits)!!!VSTi ExaktLite_x64.dll=00D3E06A365FD601,1349337720,Exak tLite (Sonicbits)!!!VSTi ....what you got?

Yup. Reaper's blacklisted that sucker. Now we have to trick Reaper. If you want to unshow hidden files and folders again, go ahead and do that now. Windows hides those things for a good reason - to stop idiots like me from messing around with stuff like this that we don't understand. I prefer to keep them showing, because it's not Micro$ofts computer, dammit! Okay, it's not mine either, but that's not important right now.

The silence is a bit unnerving. I hope I didn't just kill a computer....