Sounds like PowerDirector did not close properly and was still running in memory when you tried to restart it.

Did you reboot the PC and try again? Win8 64-bit Pro Retail
Intel i7-4770
16GB DDR3 1600 8-8-8-24
MSI Z87-G45 Motherboard
ASUS GTX 660 Direct CU II OC 2GB GPU
1 TB RAID 1 (mirrored) Drive Array
Several scratch drives for video, TMP, pagefile.

Hi John,
This is a response when PD is still working or you double click for a second time on a shortcut.

My guess is you have the Shadow edit file option in PD and PDHanumanSvr.exe is still running in the background and hasn't shut down - it's still trying to create shadow files for your project.

Select Ctrl+Alt+Delete and bring up Task Manager (I'm in XP still)
Select Processes tab and select the exe mentioned
Then select End process
Now restart PD8.

Dafydd
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Hi John,

I am definately not the techy in the group here!! But I will throw out a thought. Is it possible that you have an instance of Power Director already running?

Try the old "Control - Alt_-Delete" to bring up your TASK MANAGER then the PROCESSES TAB and look for PDR8.exe that might be running and shut it down.

I am sure other members will chime in to help if I am WAY OFF TARGET!

EDIT: Dafydd & OnTheWeb came to save the day!!

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Hi John,

Although you're not a Bristolian.....

Gud hee stik thar thingy 'ere

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I had this same error message after I switched from windows XP to windows 7. I had to reinstall PD after moving to the new operating system. I found that after rebooting the computer the error message went away and PD has worked properly since. Q9300 2.5 GHz
4 GB Ram
Nvidia 9800 GT

Hi, thanks for all of your responses.

I can open PD if I re boot, but this is time consuming. I trid to shut down PDR8.exe by going into task manager, but got the following message:-
The operation could not be completed. Access Denied.

I have noticed since I changed from Windows Vista to Windows 7, that when PD8 does open it takes about four times as long to load a project in 7, than it did in Vista. Is this normal?

Dafydd, I have only lived near Bristol for 42 years, so I am yet to be accepted. I actualy come from Kingston upon Thames in Surrey. Best regards

John

This is not normal.

I actually think PD opens faster with windows 7, but I have no real data to prove this. I only had this issue after I first installed it. I've had no problems since.

It seems as there is a problem with your installation.

If it helps I'm using Windows 7 32 bit. Q9300 2.5 GHz
4 GB Ram
Nvidia 9800 GT

Hi James.

I am also using Windos 7 32 bit. I did re install PD8 when I first upgraded from Vista, but it sounds as if I may have to do it again. Thanks for your input. Best regards

John