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Thread ID: 91755	2008-07-17 11:09:00	Laptop starting with Bin folder displayed	Robin S_ (86)	Press F1

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689880	2008-10-01 12:24:00	Yes it seems the folder C:\Program Files\Common\ is the problem... because it should be in C:\Program Files\Intervideo\ and It probably applies to 3.1 as well What directory is windvd installed in? C:\Program Files\InterVideo\WinDVD? or something else....	Agent_24 (57)
689881	2008-10-01 22:16:00	The WinDVD programme files are in C:\Program Files\WinDVD, and this is the installation folder "highly recommended" when setup begins. I tried running its setup.exe, without uninstalling the present copy, for the first few steps just to see if it gibbed at running, which it didn't. It recommended the above folder, then reported that it had detected another Intervideo product installed. I terminated the setup at that point because it had demonstrated that it will presumbly install from the CD folder (which I have copied to my HDD) which was the aim of that exercise. However, it also demonstrated that it is apparently correctly installed in the default folder for version 3.1, and since the duplication of the Bin folder (in the Common\ and Common Files\ folders), which is said to cause the Bin folder problem in version 4, is not present then it would seem that the Bin folder problem in version 3.1 is different. I would like to save the Registry settings before uninstalling "just in case", but since XP has no system.dat and user.dat files this is not as easy as it used to be. Is there now no alternative to exporting the registry files?	Robin S_ (86)
689882	2008-10-01 23:26:00	That's as may be, but that solution says your problem is caused when it's installed to "C:\Program Files\WinDVD" I would uninstall WinDVD, then reinstall to C:\Program Files\Intervideo\WinDVD or something. If you want to back up the registry (though I do not see why, there is no reason to) it's in C:\WINDOWS\system32\config Using System restore to make a backup checkpoint would probably be easier.	Agent_24 (57)
689883	2008-10-02 10:16:00	The reasons that I want to have Registry backups are - (1) I tried using a restore point a couple of months ago which removed the problem at the time but it has now recurred, so it wasn't a permanent fix; (2) by now, I would need to go back 2 - 3 weeks or so and I am not sure that I haven't made any other system changes in the meantime (which would be lost). What I might do is reverse part of the fix for v. 4, where removal of the Intervideo folder, by using Custom instead of Standard setup, caused the problem, as that created a situation where there were folders named Common and Common Files in the C:\Program Files folder, apparently thus confusing Windows. This similar folder names problem is created by the v. 3.1 default setup, so I could use Custom setup (if available) to insert an additional Intervideo folder to separate the Custom and Custom Files folders by giving them different parents. Probably won't get time to try this till the weekend.	Robin S_ (86)
689884	2008-10-02 11:29:00	The reasons that I want to have Registry backups are - (1) I tried using a restore point a couple of months ago which removed the problem at the time but it has now recurred, so it wasn't a permanent fix; (2) by now, I would need to go back 2 - 3 weeks or so and I am not sure that I haven't made any other system changes in the meantime (which would be lost).. I thought you meant that you wanted to do a backup incase the uninstalling of windvd screwed something up, which is unlikely and manually making a system restore point before you did so would be the best idea.	Agent_24 (57)
689885	2008-10-04 07:43:00	Bin folder problem removed - hopefully permanently this time. The WinDVD installer must be weird. The installation that had become troublesome was in C:\Program Files\WinDVD, and this folder was "highly recommended" when I started a dummy run with setup.exe while the existing installation was intact. Today, after making a fresh restore point (thanks for that suggestion, Agent) I uninstalled the old version and ran setup.exe, planning to specify Program Files\Intervideo\WinDVD as the programme folder, and was astonished to find that that was now being nominated as the "highly recommended" folder! I can only surmise that during the dummy run it chose the folder of the existing installation (setup had detected it) to "highly recommend". Whatever, the laptop currently boots up normally so I hope it stays that way. Thanks for all the suggestions, and especially to Agent for sticking with it till the booter end.	Robin S_ (86)
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