ikantspelwurdz
11th December 2010, 10:21
I have PowerDVD 7 Ultra, bundled with an LG BD-ROM drive. A few days ago, it was working fine. Today, it will not start. If I double-click Powerdvd.exe, nothing happens. The task manager shows Powerdvd.exe for about one second, and then it disappears. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling, and nothing changed.
If I turn off all services and startup items and reboot, it doesn't work.
If I boot Windows in safe mode, it *does* start, but obviously I can't actually play DVDs in safe mode.
The only thing I can think of that might have changed anything in my system in the past few days is that I had ran the DirectX Web updater, but I don't know why that would cause PowerDVD to suddenly fail.
System Restore is not an option. I've also gone a bit crazy trying to uninstall absolutely everything I could think of that might make a difference - VC++ redistributables, and even my video and sound drivers, just temporarily to see if powerdvd.exe would at least run (it didn't).
If I turn off all services and startup items and reboot, it doesn't work.
If I boot Windows in safe mode, it *does* start, but obviously I can't actually play DVDs in safe mode.
The only thing I can think of that might have changed anything in my system in the past few days is that I had ran the DirectX Web updater, but I don't know why that would cause PowerDVD to suddenly fail.
System Restore is not an option. I've also gone a bit crazy trying to uninstall absolutely everything I could think of that might make a difference - VC++ redistributables, and even my video and sound drivers, just temporarily to see if powerdvd.exe would at least run (it didn't).