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Rémi Denis-Courmont : I don't believe he was being over critical on you (or whomever; I'm somewhat new to VLC). I know him personally. We've discussed the issue about the power saving. Something perhaps to add in to absolve his issue for power saving features in windows... He informed me that when h...

for pre-vista users to work around the issue: 1. download the installer from VLC 2. open the VLC media player 3. open task manager 4. right click on the application (VLC media player) and select "Go to Process" (if your task manager isn't opening to the default tab of "Applications&qu...

Yup and the fix is what I put up :-) A separate installer as you're doing (by downloading the file and not launching within the media player). Windows locks files that are in use (ie: can't delete a media file you have open in whatever media player you run) but you just get a locked error message in...

FYI: I use Windows XP Service Pack 3 for the 2 PCs I have this installed in at my home; simillar issue with Windows Vista and Windows 7. Those have the "administrator" install and at times need to run from a command line (royal pain for the typical user). Having a separate "driver&quo...

I've encountered the update error too. Unless uploaded to multiple download sites it seems that file corruption is not the issue. Add a driver file to handle the updates 1. kill all running processes in tree for VLC (depending on the error this may resolve easily) 2. then launch the installer progra...