How best to upgrade from Creator 7.5 to Creator 10?

[ypt]

Hi Folks,

On my windows XP sp2 machine (3GHz Pentium 4 - 128MB ATI graphics - 2 GB ram) I have Creator 7.5.

This has worked well until I went to open Video Wave 7 to create a slide show. This I haven't done for over a year - at that time it worked fine - this time after trying to move a 3rd photo into the slide show the system just hung - after ctrl-alt-del and ending the task, Video wave disappeared from the creator screen. A shutdown and restart restored Video Wave, but it wouldn't go beyond 3 photos!

After reading various posts, I gathered it could be down to the latest version of Internet Explorer - so have now bought the latest full version - creator 10.

 

Looking through the posts about installing a new version, I'm thoroughly confused about whether to try and uninstall the old version before installing the new - or install the new and leave the old there.

Alternatively should I leave 10 in the box and try and find some software that doesn't have these funny quirks - although not sure if there is any??

 

Observations would be appreciated.

 

Michael

[ypt]

Hi Bruce,

Many thanks for your thoughts - I think I'll wait until the weekend before I try the install - there's nothing worse than coming home from work and thinking that you'll spend a "short" time on the computer!!

All the best for the festive season.

Michael from UK

Thanks Bruce,

In the end I bit the bullet - uninstalled 7.5 and installed 10 - now keeping fingers crossed .

 

All the best for Christmas

Michael.

[grandpabruce]

Thanks Bruce,

In the end I bit the bullet - uninstalled 7.5 and installed 10 - now keeping fingers crossed .

 

All the best for Christmas

Michael.

 

Merry Christmas to you to, Michael.

[grandpabruce]

Hi Folks,

On my windows XP sp2 machine (3GHz Pentium 4 - 128MB ATI graphics - 2 GB ram) I have Creator 7.5.

This has worked well until I went to open Video Wave 7 to create a slide show. This I haven't done for over a year - at that time it worked fine - this time after trying to move a 3rd photo into the slide show the system just hung - after ctrl-alt-del and ending the task, Video wave disappeared from the creator screen. A shutdown and restart restored Video Wave, but it wouldn't go beyond 3 photos!

After reading various posts, I gathered it could be down to the latest version of Internet Explorer - so have now bought the latest full version - creator 10.

 

Looking through the posts about installing a new version, I'm thoroughly confused about whether to try and uninstall the old version before installing the new - or install the new and leave the old there.

Alternatively should I leave 10 in the box and try and find some software that doesn't have these funny quirks - although not sure if there is any??

 

Observations would be appreciated.

 

Michael

 

If you have Internet Explorer 7 and/or Windows Media Player 10 or 11, on your computer, EMC 7.5 is not going to work properly. If you don't want to dump IE 7 and WMP 10 or 11, then you may as well uninstall EMC 7.5 and install EMC 10.

 

Personally, I would roll back to IE6 and WMP 9, do a repair on EMC 7.5, then install EMC 10. I run IE 6 and WMP 9, and I have EMC 7.5, 9, and 10, on the same computer, and all get along with each other, as near as I can tell.

[ypt]

If you have Internet Explorer 7 and/or Windows Media Player 10 or 11, on your computer, EMC 7.5 is not going to work properly. If you don't want to dump IE 7 and WMP 10 or 11, then you may as well uninstall EMC 7.5 and install EMC 10.

 

Personally, I would roll back to IE6 and WMP 9, do a repair on EMC 7.5, then install EMC 10. I run IE 6 and WMP 9, and I have EMC 7.5, 9, and 10, on the same computer, and all get along with each other, as near as I can tell.

Hi Bruce,

Many thanks for your thoughts - I think I'll wait until the weekend before I try the install - there's nothing worse than coming home from work and thinking that you'll spend a "short" time on the computer!!

All the best for the festive season.

Michael from UK