I've upgraded to Windows 7 this weekend and I think I might have a problem with the registration Key of DVD Profiler. My config is as follows:

- Administrator account
- personal account in English (regular user, no admin rights)
- same as above but in Japanese

I use this config for safety reasons, so that I need to specifically log into the admin account to install additional software

I installed DVDP in the Administrator account and entered the key without issues, all works. Then I logged into the regular English account and it asked for the key again but at that time, no matter what I tried, it won't accept that same key.

Is a key only valid for one account on one computer? If so, I'll have to use it in my account that has admin rights ...

Does the old trick "Run as..." work in W7 ?

Must indeed be the problem of running it as normal user instead of Admin. I'll give it a try and see what gives ...
Thanks everyone!

By the way, I might add that DVDP seems to be running much smoother under Windows 7 than it used to under Windows XP.

I guess that would depend on how much internal memory you have.

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Must indeed be the problem of running it as normal user instead of Admin. I'll give it a try and see what gives ...
Thanks everyone!

By the way, I might add that DVDP seems to be running much smoother under Windows 7 than it used to under Windows XP.

Interested in this line you state., I use Windows XP pro (for the time being ), and a with dual core 32 bit processor, I find that profiler will work fine me,, BUT if I let it sit on my desktop for hours and then go to use it freezes and stalls and takes minutes for it to get up and run smooth again..,
So I always remove profiler when I am finished with it, so I don't have this problem.,
Will  Windows 7  remove this  situation??

I had the exact same problem under WinXP with my dualcore 32bit + 1Gig Ram. If I let DVDP iddle for some time, it takes forever to use again and the HDD works overtime.

I've been using it with Win7 for a week now and have yet to encounter such an issue. Perhaps Win7 uses my computer resources in a more efficient way? Whatever the case, I feel it runs smoother now.

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The stalls is because Windows basically moved the program out of main memory into the swap file.  When you access it again, it has to load it back out of the swap file into main memory.

Vista itself needs at least 700 MB just to function.  If you have 1 GB of RAM, that doesn't leave much left.  Some are saying that even 2 GB really isn't enough.  The minimum spec for Vista is 1 GB of ram and that means that's just enough to scrape by.

I have 4 GB installed on my Vista box but since it's a 32 bit system, only 3 GB is available for use.  However, Vista tells me that 1.5 GB of the memory is being utilized by the OS leaving 1.5 GB for applications.

I'm not a programmer, but I do get the distinct feelings that memory usage has been greatly optimized with Windows 7. My dad's Vaio notebook has Vista and when I look at CPU and memory usage, it's a bit of a memory hog. My desktop has less under the hood but runs just as smooth or even better with windows 7. It could be just my impression of course but I get the feeling things just go smoother with win7

Clean install, yes. Jumping from XP, it seemed better to just go with a clean install. And yes, unfortunately notebooks have a tendancy to come with preinstalled crapware