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Corel WinDVD 9 Blue-Ray error =38
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I love playing DVD’s on my MediaCenter. Well until very recently I used WinDVD to do so, which worked out perfect. Supporting HD-DVD / BlueRay and normal DVD. Recently I got the error =38 every single time when I started out the WinDVD application.
At first you might think that you may have to restart or that something went wrong during the loading of the application. But the problem kept occurring even after rebooting several times. Just to make sure that it had nothing to do with the computer I re-installed. But allas the problem remained.
So the internet became my best friend. I started searching for the error, unfortunately I found nothing exactly describing what is going wrong. But I did found some obscure reference to a new authentication and license service that Corel is including in it’s newest products.
Damn the windows services
Then I rememberd something. A little while back I optimized the computer to perform better. One of the usuall things I do is disable programs to startup and services to start. Mostly those that I do not recognize. One of the services I disabled was the ‘Protexis Licensing V2′ service. I now that I read something about this on the Internet in relation to the Corel Applications.
So just for fun I enabled the services and started it up. And sure as hell, no more errors when I started WinDVD 9. Problem solved 
As to why Corel opted to such obscure error messages is beyond me. Just give me a clear error stating that the Licensing service is not running. At least then I know what to do! 
Company Kickoff 2009
As we do every year at our company we had a company kickoff. Going over the numbers of last year and predictions for the next, as well as some fun parties. Below are some of the pictures taken at the hill at Vaals. (Sorry no party picks as they are to humiliating).
