It is with great interest that I read the instructions of CL support.
It shows, that they are really willing to help you out, and are probably as curious as you are, why the program does not work…
They actually ask you to help them watch what PD is doing when you open the disk production process with DBGview (debug viewer, which can be downloaded from internet, browser for it….), but they also instruct you to replace some of the files that are standard to the PD installation with files provided in the file that they should have attached. I presume that the files they provide are debug-versions of the PD production files, that contains information that is helpful when one needs to debug software.
Even without the extra files CL should have included, with DBGview running while starting PD, you can follow a bit what is happening under the hood. WITH the CLfiles there is no doubt more information that should make sense to CLdevelopment.
I suggest:
- ask CL for the additional files, but only if you feel confident to execute their instructions, and fiddle with the CL installation and within your windows system
- by all means make windows restore point before you start
- execute the instructions very precisely
you can copy the files they instruct you to, but I would recommend making a backup of the whole folder structure/ tree of c:\program files\cyberlink\PowerDirector21. Doing that will give you a better position to restore the PD installation as it was.
At the end of the instructions, you can restore the backup of the whole folder but even better would be that at the end of the instruction list they would have written: and now un-install and re-install PD (if only to make sure that you operate with all the proper files)
- you can also run DBGView without changing and replacing the files CL asks you to. It is saver, and there will still be some information, that might be helpful, but apparently not as helpful as CL development expects it to be with the (not yet) provided files. But you can send it any way and see what CL development can make of it.
Hope this helps a bit.