Hello!
I have just installed Ulead VideoStudio 11+ TBYB (obtained legitimately and directly from Corel/Ulead) on Windows Vista Ultimate x86, and it does not work. As soon as I try to open the program, I only get the message: "The security information is invalid or has been modified. This program will be terminated."
I searched this board before asking, and all I could find was the suggestion to do a thorough uninstall (deleting leftover files, registry keys, etc.), then reinstall the program. I did that, following all the instructions (mostly unnecessary - UVS 11+ uninstalls very cleanly and thoroughly from Control Panel already), but it still did not work. I even took care to perform this second install with a very barebones Windows configuration (only REALLY essential modules and services running) and with UAC turned OFF, to no avail. Running UVS 11+ as Administrator has no effect either.
Since I have a dual-boot PC, I then installed UVS 11+ on Windows XP Professional SP2, just to see what happened. It worked smoothly right from the start! I could use the program from XP without a glitch, but Vista is now my main working OS, and I would prefer to run UVS 11+ from there, so as not to have to reboot just to use UVS. BTW, I am very disappointed - I was eagerly expecting version 11 exactly because UVS 10 did not work on Vista (Ulead's compatibility patch had no effect).
Hardware: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ S939 "Venice", not overclocked, EPoX 9GF6100-M motherboard (nVidia nForce 410 chipset), nVidia GeForce 7300GT PCI-E 16x with the latest drivers (158.18 for Vista, 93.71 for XP), 2 GB DDR400 RAM, Seagate SATA II 320-GB 7200-rpm hard drive, SB Audigy SE sound card.
Any hints? The only other site I could find in Google with a reference to this bug was in Turkish, and I don't understand a word of it... Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you very much!
UVS 11+ not working on Windows Vista
Moderator: Ken Berry
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markk655
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UrsoBR
Still not working - giving up
Thanks for the tip, but Vista reports no problems - I even examined the event logs in detail. In the meantime, I tried a few more things. For example, I remember some serious Intervideo/Cyberlink mutual incompatibility clashes in the past, so I uninstalled Cyberlink PowerDVD 7.3 (just to check, because if I had found that this was the problem, UVS would be the one to go - I wouldn't permanently dump the best DVD player software around just to be able to have it). No effect.
I also tried to alternately turn UVS Preloader on and off, with no effect. I usually remove all such preloaders/update checkers/useless services/whatever from Windows boot - I consider VERY BAD DESIGN PRACTICE to force the system to always have part of its memory and CPU resources allocated to a given process, when the corresponding program may be used only eventually, and the benefit in faster loading is minimal, if any. Of course, Corel/Ulead isn't alone in spreading this plague: I have had the trouble of removing such modules from Adobe Acrobat, iTunes, QuickTime, Real Player (the latter three are really nasty in this respect!), Cyberlink PDVD, OpenOffice.org, PGP Desktop, and even Sun's Java Runtime Environment... At least, Microsoft finally removed FindFast from MS Office, but the plague seems to be getting worse with other software!
I also noticed some hints in UVS documentation that it might have been too much specifically hard-wired for Intel processors (mine is from AMD). A bad thing for the Brazilian market, since here, while Intel owns the corporate market as it does everywhere, AMD owns the home user market, because its cost/performance ratio, in our local market's conditions, is unbeatable. But then again, if that were the problem, UVS 11+ wouldn't work on my XP install either, and it does.
So, since I am unable to run UVS 11+ on Vista, and don't want to switch to XP just to use it, it is sadly going away. I will keep looking for another program for my video editing needs. I don't really need much - I don't even have a camcorder, the few domestic videos I make are done with my webcam, and I intended to use the program mostly to correct and improve the display quality of videos downloaded from YouTube, for example (BTW, given the popularity of YouTube and similar web sites, all of which work with Flash Video, it's a SHAME that UVS still doesn't support FLV, from what I could see in my XP-based tests!).
Thank you anyway, good luck and all the best!
I also tried to alternately turn UVS Preloader on and off, with no effect. I usually remove all such preloaders/update checkers/useless services/whatever from Windows boot - I consider VERY BAD DESIGN PRACTICE to force the system to always have part of its memory and CPU resources allocated to a given process, when the corresponding program may be used only eventually, and the benefit in faster loading is minimal, if any. Of course, Corel/Ulead isn't alone in spreading this plague: I have had the trouble of removing such modules from Adobe Acrobat, iTunes, QuickTime, Real Player (the latter three are really nasty in this respect!), Cyberlink PDVD, OpenOffice.org, PGP Desktop, and even Sun's Java Runtime Environment... At least, Microsoft finally removed FindFast from MS Office, but the plague seems to be getting worse with other software!
I also noticed some hints in UVS documentation that it might have been too much specifically hard-wired for Intel processors (mine is from AMD). A bad thing for the Brazilian market, since here, while Intel owns the corporate market as it does everywhere, AMD owns the home user market, because its cost/performance ratio, in our local market's conditions, is unbeatable. But then again, if that were the problem, UVS 11+ wouldn't work on my XP install either, and it does.
So, since I am unable to run UVS 11+ on Vista, and don't want to switch to XP just to use it, it is sadly going away. I will keep looking for another program for my video editing needs. I don't really need much - I don't even have a camcorder, the few domestic videos I make are done with my webcam, and I intended to use the program mostly to correct and improve the display quality of videos downloaded from YouTube, for example (BTW, given the popularity of YouTube and similar web sites, all of which work with Flash Video, it's a SHAME that UVS still doesn't support FLV, from what I could see in my XP-based tests!).
Thank you anyway, good luck and all the best!
I didn't have a problem with the install on Vista. One of the biggest problems I have is when making a video it keeps crashing. Sometimes ya get to a point of finishing and other times it keeps crashing. It is still way to buggy on Vista for me to trust it. Thank goodness I have XP on the other drive.