

That did the trick, and eventually, after many bad words were uttered and a couple of reboots, it was finally actually installed, activated and was ready to run.Corel paintshop pro illegal copy Or you are getting Corel PaintShop Pro X9 has stopped working. After a number of aborted attempts - wherein Studio Ultimate resolutely told us we had no Net connection even when we did - we got angry and did a complete (and slow) reinstall. Studio's buggy activation gave us no reason to suddenly start loving it. We're not great fans of online activation, especially for products such as Studio Ultimate that don't necessarily revolve around online functionality. Finally, after what amounted to a number of hours trying, we were able to get everything installed and we fired up Studio Ultimate to give it a spin.Īt that point, it jumped in and demanded that we activate it online.

Our second attempt took around 10 minutes to process the first disc, and that worked fine, but then it crashed on the "bonus" DVD, so we started all over again. On our first attempt, it took around 30 minutes to install, and then it crashed. We installed it on a Windows Vista Ultimate machine (the outside of the box proudly proclaims that it works with Vista) that was well above the recommended specification. Installation of Studio Ultimate was a rather tortuous affair. Remember, it's all fun and games until somebody posts it up to YouTube.

We suspect that the inclusion of the sheet will lead to many Studio Ultimate users experimenting with dodgy special effects and overlays. Lastly, and not all that incongruously, there's a large green sheet, for compositing special effects into your movies. There's a moderately chunky Studio manual, which is also a break from recent traditions, which have seen annoying PDF manuals becoming de rigueur. For a start, you get not one, but four discs - three install discs and an update disc for the third DVD. That's right - there's actually more in the box than just a CD or two and lots of (presumably very expensive) air. Pinnacle's broken from a very longstanding tradition in big box software products. We were in for a shock when we opened the Studio Ultimate 11 box.
