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| 158321 | 2003-07-08 22:23:00 | Hi. My DVD player always picks up Interactual player software all the time. How do I stop this and get it to change the software it uses. I have down loaded Power dvd but it continually tries to get me to down load and use the interactual player. Please spell out means to change in a step by step format as I am software illiterate. Cheers Steve! |
Robo1 (920) | ||
| 158322 | 2003-07-08 22:50:00 | Hi there, from what you have said i'm going to make a presumption and guess that you want don't want to use interactual player at all. Going by this, the first thing you would do is to point yourself to the add/remove component of the windows control panel. To get there, click on: Start > Settings > Control panel. In here search for "add remove programs". Search though the newly opened window that contains the majority of programs installed on your machine until you find "interactual player", you may find it is called something else dependant on the actual maker of the software, it will be there though so just keep hunting. When you have found it, click on the "Remove" button to uninstall it. Follow through the uninstall wizard until you have reached the end. Now insert a DVD, one of two things will happen - either a autorun window will appear asking you which application you wish to use to open this particular CD or nothing will happen at all. If the autorun window appears then select Power DVD and you're away. If nothing happens then you need to open Power DVD then go into its configuration settings and find the "associations" section. There will be an option there to enable it to associate it with DVD media. Hope this helps. | demonmors (1299) | ||
| 158323 | 2003-07-08 23:59:00 | Some DVDs insanely insist on installing InterActual player for you, unfortunately. So if you remove it and then pop in a DVD with PC-specific functions, up pops the installer for InterActual. You may be able to choose not to install but I've come across some where they don't give you the option. It doesn't bloody work on my system so I never want to use it. I'm lazy so I just close it when it opens and then fire up Power DVD or WinDVD instead. | Biggles (121) | ||
| 158324 | 2003-07-09 00:05:00 | Just a thought: Install TweakUI and turn off Autorun. I never liked this feature of Windows. | KiwiTT (4082) | ||
| 158325 | 2003-07-09 00:10:00 | Hi Robo again. Thanks demonmors but the interact player has been removed in add & delete programs. In options for dvd player Power Dvd player is there but always deaults back to interactual player. Help!!! As Bruce has commented he has given up and just re opens with another player. I am not giving up! Tried using reg clean to get rid of any hanggers on but still No success. Help!!! |
Robo1 (920) | ||
| 158326 | 2003-07-09 06:39:00 | Change the file extensions for IFO and VOB to make them load with Power Dvd. Tools -> Folder options -> File types tab. Look for IFO and VOB, and change what program they start up with. |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 158327 | 2003-07-09 10:29:00 | What is happening is that DVD drives are not only drives that play DVDs, but read data DVDs like they would data CDs. This being the case, it's not the MOVIE that is trying to load Interactual player, but the software on the DVD being autorun. Thus changing file associations won't have any effect, as what is being run when you insert the DVD is the autorun.inf and associated files, and the only way to get around that is to disable the autorun. I think you used to be able to override the autorun by holding down SHIFT, but I don't know if that still works. Even if you do that, though, you'll still have to manually start a DVD player program to watch your movie. The software autorun overrides any Windows intelligent auto-loading of content. Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 158328 | 2003-07-09 10:37:00 | I use Win DVD as u can slow the playback speed, which is so cool when watching movies like Matrix, and then u realise hey , they are just faking!! They dont really know karate or jujitsu.:D cheers, v.K |
vk_dre (195) | ||
| 158329 | 2003-07-09 12:00:00 | Sorry Mike, my method will work. It definitely worked for me when I wanted the dvd to play in WinDvd instead of interactual. The VOB (DVD Video OBject) and IFO (InFOrmation) file extensions are specific to only video dvds. So changing them will only affect video DVDs. If he were to put in a game or data DVD it won't open in PowerDVD - nothing will happen. |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 158330 | 2003-07-09 22:03:00 | Hi. Thanks for your input every one. PoWa with regard to you instructions I have no trouble getting to File types. Once I have these it gets confusing. Two details given Extension and file type. Under Extension There is power dvd logo and next to that in brackets none. And under File type is DVD video. Look forward to your assistance. Cheers Robo. |
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