removing Power Director 7

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Apr 30, 2012 13:54

I have begun to curse Cyberlinki because PD 7 absolutely refuses to uninstall from my computer and I'm fed up. In control Panel I click on remove and it proceeds to do the exact OPPOSITE to my command, then tells me the programme already exists, do I want to uninstall, then after clicking yes, tells me an error has occurred and programme ident is lost. So I try to remove by deleting the folder from "programme files", only to get an "access denied warning from the two remaining folders, Power DVD and Shared Files. Quite frankly I've had a gutful. All I wanted to do was uninstall and reinstall to try to remedy a problem of spontaneous crashing. The PD7 files have been deleted but their ghosts haunt this computer. I cannot reinstall because, as said, the computer thinks the programme still exists and i go through the whole cycle again to end up even more frustrated and infuriated when I get the error message yet again. There's no actual change option as clicking "change/remove" only starts the remove process, which, as stated does the opposite. WHAT NOW?

Carl312

Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline

Apr 30, 2012 20:59

Try CL Cleaner for PD 7.

http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/15688.page

CL cleaner does not remove anything, it just fixes the keys in the registry so that the computer does on know Powerdirector is installed or has ever been installed.

After running CL Cleaner, it does not appear anything happened, but it did. Now you can remove all of the Powerdirector files on C drive and any other place a file search will turn up.

Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

Anonymous

May 02, 2012 09:17

I actually did manage to sort the problem so the curse is lifted(did I just hear you heave a sigh of relief?). This is how I did it.... First I went to "Control Panel" - Add/Remove Programmes, took off some that would go(Power Producer and other related bits & bobs), then to "Programme Files" and opened the Cyberlink folder and deleted the Power Director folder and the Power Producer folder. There was still the "ghost" of Power Director 7 still haunting my computer so, loading in my DVD Suite disc, reinstalled Power Producer & Power director 5, not because I wanted version 5, but it would overwrite the remnants and clear out what remained of PD7 from the problematic installation.
Once PD5 had done its job, I then loaded my PD7 installation disc and it then overwrote PD5, so now I have PD7 back, working properly as it should. The problems I had can be traced back to when I accepted the chance to "upgrade(?)" PD7. I certainly won't be doing that again - once bitten.....! PD7 is working properly again and I was able to finish(up to a point, still waiting on some more MPEG clips from a friend to finish off the "Steamfest" video we shot over the past weekend here in Australia.

Carl312

Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline

May 02, 2012 09:44

Neil.F.1955,

That is good News!

Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.