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Strange Reinstall
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DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantDRAYCHRISPEN
Registered: March 17, 2007
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I'm running windows so of course you have to completely redo your computer at least once a year sometimes more.  Anyways I'm running Vista Ultimate and after installing DVD Profiler I ran it for the first time and it entered all my registration information and restored all my profiles. How can this happen? I completly reformated the hard drive and reinstalled XP than installed Vista over that because its an upgrade only
DVD Profiler Unlimited Registrantbdixon
Registered: March 16, 2007
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Had you restored your "Documents" folder? I installed vista recently, but before installing DVD Profiler i had copied my files into the user area ("My Documents" on XP) and it automatically picked this up...
DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantDRAYCHRISPEN
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No. I don't save anything in the Documents folder. I have one central place I put everything so that I can easily back it up every week. All I saved in that folder for dvd profiler were the install files for both desktop and mobile and the backup file that gets created from the file menu. I don't really care but it just seemed a little odd that I completely reformated the hard drive and that was still good. Just like I didn't do anything at all.
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorLewis_Prothero
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Registered: May 19, 2007
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Have you just formated the disk or did you delete the partitions?
It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up!
But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?


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DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile Registrantpauls42
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Registered: March 13, 2007
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I'm running windows so of course you have to completely redo your computer at least once a year sometimes more.  Anyways I'm running Vista Ultimate and after installing DVD Profiler I ran it for the first time and it entered all my registration information and restored all my profiles. How can this happen? I completly reformated the hard drive and reinstalled XP than installed Vista over that because its an upgrade only


do you have only the single hard disk? I have moved my database to another drive so it isn't on C and I wondered if the same thing had been done with you?

Also, did you want to delete all your profiles?
If so, you can tag selected, delete all tagged.
Paul
DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantDRAYCHRISPEN
Registered: March 17, 2007
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I don't wanted to delete anything. I have 2 hard drives. One is partition into 4 letters. That's the main one. Then I have a secound one that is just used for back up and recording TV shows on. I left everything to the default setting so my collection was in C:\users\Daniel\Documents\DVD Profiler. I reformated C than reinstalled Vista
DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile Registrantkdh1949
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Registered: March 13, 2007
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I'm running windows so of course you have to completely redo your computer at least once a year sometimes more.

Huh?  What are you running that makes it necessary for you to do this?  
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar Contributornorthbloke
Registered: March 15, 2007
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I don't think it's necessary Ken, but it's always been advisable to clean out and rebuild Windows PCs on a regular basis because Windows has never been very good at housekeeping so PCs tend to get clogged up with file fragments and temporary files etc.
Reformatting and restoring a PC can have a very beneficial effect on performance.
DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantStar ContributorDJ Doena
Registered: May 1, 2002
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My XP installation is more than two and a half years old and it's still running smoothly.

We're not in the times of Windows 95/98 anymore.

I don't know how DVDP restored itself, but (to quote the first Harry Potter book) "there's no such thing as magic!"
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