Tried repair option, now registry error

[wguru]

Used add-remove programs to repair my MF4SE and for the repair process's wizard, I unticked the default ticked 'register my product' (believing that since I previously had registered it, I needn't again).

Now before MF4's main window opens, I'm getting a DVDMF popup that merely says "A registry error". It looks like users might be required to register (re-register) during the wizard's repair process, but neither during the repair process, when trying to use MF4, nor even searching the Ulead website (corel's as well), am I finding anything informing the user about the registering process.

Also after the initial registry error popup (and OK'ing it), MF4's main window opens, but almost immediately another popup appears saying 'sorry MF4 had to close', and when I click that popup's OK and another popup details the error signature...

AppName: dvdmf.exe AppVer: 4.0.0.0
ModName: u32video.dll
ModVer: 4.0.0.0
Offset: 0000d8cd

That error report's contents also lists that the error report will include the file (e260_appcompat.txt) and a top the error reporting slough of details, it says exception information - code : 0xc0000005, etc.

Maybe the registry issue is simply one related to my stored Ulead folder locations, but I'm not sure. I do notice I have two Ulead.dat files, one in/at...

C:\Program Files\Ulead Systems\Ulead DVD MovieFactory 4.0 SE\Ulead DVD MovieFactory 4.0

..and the other in/at...

C:\Documents and Settings\wguru\Application Data\Ulead Systems\Ulead DVD MovieFactory\4.0

I don't believe offered me any option for preferred file location, and am uncertain if the registry issue is related to my file locations. I've tried Rusing my Uniblue's Registry Booster and found no hits on MF4's process, but did fix a few other issues and still I'm MF4 is popping up with "registry error" and of course MF4 is still shutting down.

Should I simply and manually delete everything Ulead related on my HD, then use add-remove progs to remove MF4SE, and then use the CD to reinstall it, or might there be something as simple involved here as registering the program?

[sjj1805]

Do not confuse registering the program on the Corel website, with your computers registry. Once you have installed and registered a program, if you later reformat the hard drive and re-install then you do not have to register it again.

Obviously something went wrong during the installation process and so I would suggest you do a 'clean re-installation' as shown in this thread.
Re-installation Procedure

[wguru]

Appreciate the reply. But as for re-registering, it seems somewhere someone or something should have prompted one of the eventual need to re-register, especially after bypassing the repair wizard's register option?

Instead and regardless of the risks, I used system restore to get MF4 working again, especially due to the woe involved in uninstalling Ulead's MF.

I'd only tried reinstalling it as it kept closing with DVDMF's unknown error which I eventually figured out was my laptop's cooling fan having degraded performance that seems to have been causing the unidentified DVDMF error (as after remedying the cooling problem, DVDMF captures once more and w/o any unknown errors at least for now).

Oddly MF4SE had been repeatedly shutting down exactly after 2 mins and 34 secs of capturing (a few times it varied a little from the 2 mins capturing before the unk error stopped capturing, but more often that not stopped at the 2:34 capture points), and unfortunatley I didn't discover the cooling problem until after bunking MF4 by attempting a add-remove progs repair.

Biggest issue is that Sony VAIO PCG-K27's (maybe all of Sony's laptops) neglect to afford any overheating notification popups or even an event log entry relative to overheating.

Thanks again for the reply, even tho reinstall instructions are really a bit like shutting the gate after the cows are out (i.e.; us poor idiots who install stuff w/o checking if the installs come with any uninstaller).