Wont save program changes

I hope this is the right place to ask this.

I just got a new Samsung R780 laptop with Win 7 home premium (updating from the old laptop win xp). Everything seems to work well but one program I re-insatlled on the new machine--corel's photoimpact x3--wants me to register it every time I turn the laptop on. I hit the never register because it is already registered (to me on the old machine) but when I reopen windows it prompts me again.

Also my DivX player has an new version that Windows prompts me to load every time as well. I load the new version, I've even used it, but the next time I open windows it's gone and prompts me to load the new version.

I've made sure the "Store and display recently opened items" box in 'properties' is checked, but I didn't really expect that to be the problem. What am I missing?

Thanks , I tried to keep it as brief as possible. I hope there's enough info...although I wouldn't know what else to add anyway.

sidewinder said:

I just got a new Samsung R780 laptop with Win 7 home premium (updating from the old laptop win xp). Everything seems to work well but one program I re-insatlled on the new machine--corel's photoimpact x3--wants me to register it every time I turn the laptop on. I hit the never register because it is already registered (to me on the old machine) but when I reopen windows it prompts me again.

The registration is probably looking at a .ini entry or a registry entry to verify registration. Do you have a .ini file associated with that program on your XP machine? Or you could re-register.

Also my DivX player has an new version that Windows prompts me to load every time as well. I load the new version, I've even used it, but the next time I open windows it's gone and prompts me to load the new version.

This may be the same type of problem, but if nothing else works, perhaps uninstall and reinstall.

Oh, thanks, I don't know what I had on the XP machine, it was destroyed in an auto accident. I'll try re-registering it and see if it helps thanks.