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Posted by Cathy De Viney on 09/19/05 16:47
I have never done any of the MF4 patches and mine works perfectly every
time.
"Bob" <spam@uce.gov> wrote in message
news:432ec57f.317203@news-server.houston.rr.com...
> On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 15:23:55 GMT, "SamSez" <samtheman@verizon.net>
> wrote:
>
>>[Somebody give this guy his money back so the rest of us redo users don't
>>begin
>>to think maybe we haven't been using it JUST FINE all along. Sigh....]
>
> Redo does not work in every instance.
>
> Anyone using Ulead MovieFactory 4 must apply the latest patch.
>
> I recommend that users make a clone of their boot disk before
> installing MF4. The reason is because you will have to uninstall it at
> some point and reinstall it, so if you have a clone you can avoid the
> uninstall process, which includes a thorough Registry cleaning by all
> the major cleaners to get as much of the residue out.
>
> I have been exercising MF4 over the past several days in as many ways
> as I can think of. I have discovered something about how the
> developers have attempted to patch the problems they have, It's an old
> trick but it eventually can lead to serious problems which can only be
> solved by the Ol' Uninstall/Reinstall.
>
> What I have discovered is that in a futile attempt to cover over the
> problems, they are keeping an environment which configures MF4 based
> on what is believed to be the last stable configuration. They keep
> this in the so-called "hidden" areas maintained by MF4, namely
> Application Data under your user profile.
>
> What happens is that eventually you can't do anything new without it
> reverting back to some goofy behavior that you are trying to work
> around. Even VideoReDo does no good. If you attempt to pass this along
> to the Ulead forum, all that will happen is you will get fussed at for
> ripping video DVDs.
>
> If you find that MF4 is not behaving the way you want or expect it to,
> based on the first few times you used it when you first installed it,
> then the only thing I know to do is the Industry Standard
> Uninstall/Reinstall, used by all the big boys when their applications
> tie themselves in a knot.
>
> In the meantime, I sincerely hope that Ulead expends the necessary
> resources to fix MF4 because it is one of the more friendly
> applications for simple DVD editing. Judging from the number of
> patches that have been posted recently it would appear that they are
> doing this. But I am afraid it is going to take a complete re-write
> because this version has all the earmarks of a prototype being patched
> to make it sorta work if not exercized too much.
>
> Therefore we eagerly await MF5.
>
>
> --
>
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>
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> --Thomas Sowell
>
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