How to get both versions working on one machine, with no HD DVD or Blu-Ray drive in your computer:
Note: If you have neither drive, the installation program will install the blu-ray version. There is a trick to renaming the setup files to get it to install the HD DVD version, which has already been done for you here. Although there are two copies of the same software here, one has been renamed. This way, you can be sure the files are renamed correctly, and you are starting with a confirmed working version. If you do have an HD-DVD drive, you will need to disable it in Device Manager before installing the Blu-Ray version of the software. If you have a Blu-Ray drive, you'll need to disable it before doing the HD-DVD version install. These directions were taken elsewhere on the web and modified to make it simpler and to work with this copy of the software.
First completely clean your system of Powerdvd.
Uninstall the program.
Delete all program folders. (You may need to kill PDVDServ.exe and RichVideo.exe in Processes to do so)
Delete all Cyberlink registry entries
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CyberLink]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cyberlink]
Install PowerDvd Ultra Blu Ray version. Go through the entire process including registration key.
Go to processes in task manager and kill PDVDServ.exe
Go to C:\Program Files\Cyberlink and rename the PowerDvd folder to PowerDvdBD. Ignore errors.
Delete the desktop shortcut and make a new one from the .exe in the renamed folder. Rename it “PowerBD”
Install PowerDVD HD DVD Version. It will tell you it needs to uninstall the previous version. Click “O.K.”.
Ignore errors.
Once you have completely gone though the install process, rename the desktop shortcut to “PowerHDDVD”
At this point, you should have a working HDDVD copy and a non working Blu Ray copy.
Run ReregisterCodecs.exe (or Go to
and download DSFMgr.exe if you worry about viruses)
At the bottom of filter manager you will see a button that says “Register new filter”. Click on it and navigate to the first folder in the list below.
C:\Program Files\CyberLink\PowerDVDBD\AudioFilter
C:\Program Files\CyberLink\PowerDVDBD\NavFilter
C:\Program Files\CyberLink\PowerDVDBD\UPnP
C:\Program Files\CyberLink\PowerDVDBD\VideoFilter
Find any file that ends in .AX and double click on it, and then repeat until all .AX files in these 4 folders have been registered - should be 20 or 30.
Both versions of PowerDvd should now be fully operational.
Enjoy!
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