A few months back, Corel VideoStudio X5 suddenly stopped working -- for no apparent reason -- with one of those obscure error messages that tells you nothing but, "Im not working anymore!" Technical support at Corel lasts 90 days, and my 90 days were over, so I figured, "What the heck, Ill buy the upgrade to X6, and if there is still a problem, technical support will help me solve it."
Nope. X6 failed the same as X5, they had no idea why, and when I told them that I had successfully got X6 working on a much older (like 2003 vintage) laptop, the response of the technical support guy was, "It is only licensed for one computer. Your newer computer isnt capable of running it." Yet it ran X5 fine until one day -- splat. And apparently a number of other users of X5 and X6 have had the same experience -- suddenly it stopped working. My guess is that there is some other piece of software that was automatically downloaded, like Apple QuickTime, but no one seems to know who the guilty party is.
I was thinking of buying a blindingly fast quad core laptop, and just figure that on a completely fresh system, X6 would work, but that is beginning to look like $1000+ (at least with 16 GB of RAM) with Windows 7. If I had the distribution CD for XP, I would do a fresh install, but HP in its infinite wisdom, did not provide it, and I am sure that they would just laugh now.
Perhaps it makes more sense to buy the Windows 7 Home Premium upgrade for this PC. It is still a reasonably quick box with a 500 GB hard drive, and the upgrade is only $110 on Amazon. It will be something of a pain, because I will have to copy all my files over to my backup 1 TB external drive, but Ive got 584 GB free there, which is way more than enough. Any suggestions? (No, Linux isnt quite practical -- I need to be able to run Office 2010 for compatibility with the College of Western Idaho.)
UPDATE: It turns out that the RECOVERY partition still exists on the old hard disk, which is now a USB drive. I wonder if I can successfully use this to recreate XP Pro on my current hard disk? The answer seems to be yes, but it is too late to do that this evening.
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