WinDVD 4 xp does not work

[james brice]

I have a copy of WinDVD 4xp for use on my Pentium 3 PC. It worked very well for a few months, but now when I click on the icon, it does not respond. I dont even get the opening screen. I have tried the following downloading direct-x from Microsoft, uninstalling other DVD player programs, trying a different DVD burner driver, deactivating background programs, changing settings in Win 98, reinstalling WinDVD, prayer.

Nothing seems to work. Is there something that I have done wrong? A friend thinks that I either erased a driver or downloaded competing software. I don't know what I could have done. Perhaps the DVD driver is defective, because it often does not respond when I try to eject a DVD. I also have tried to install other DVD player programs, but they dont work either. At least I can get the main screen, but they don't run DVDs either.


But the WinDVD 4 xp program did work well earlier. Sybex sent me an improved version that worked. The first one did not either.

What could have changed in the meantime?Do I need to download something? deinstall something? Change my religion?