VS X10 and 2018 problems in Windows 10

[JaySigel]

Using VideoStudio Ultimate X10 and Ultimate 2018 on 2 different Windows 10 Pro machines results in IDENTICAL problems when trying to render DVDs or Blu-rays. First, VS will not load saved projects, crashing at the Add Media screen, that can only be terminated by using the Task Manager. This problem can be avoided ONLY by running either version of VS in Windows 7 compatibility mode. Using Windows 8 compatibility mode doesn't help.

Secondly and less importantly, rending a Blu-ray or DVD takes over 3-4 times longer than when doing the same tasks in Windows 7. I'm talking about a simple 25 GB Blu-ray render taking 40 minutes on a Windows 7 laptop with an I7 at 2.7 giga-Hz quad-core CPU and 8 GB RAM laptop versus 150 minutes on a I7-8700K 3.7 giga-Hz 6-core CPU with 16 GB RAM and in a gaming motherboard desktop! Both desktop and laptop have SSDs with the desktop having a super-fast 500 GB M.2 main drive. It doesn't matter whether the render is direct to the Blu-ray disc (max write speed is 12X) or to an ISO file on the hard drive, on my Windows 10 machines, it still takes about the same 150 minutes.

After taking the above laptop with Windows 7 and putting a fresh install of Windows 10 on it with minimal installation of other programs (no other video programs), I had the same problems on the laptop that I had on the more powerful desktop when using VideoStudio. Since these problems only occur in Windows 10 (possibly, just on W10 Pro?), the likely cause is a Windows Update somewhere (plus using it in Windows 7 compatibility mode probably is the reason for the decreased performance issues). These problems are likely to occur in other versions of VS, not just the last 2 versions. Are other users having the same problems?