Tried fo a couple of hours to get the new version of VLC Player from VideoLAN to run without totally locking up my system. I tried different versions and no luck. Then I realized I had uninstalled an older version just before I upgraded to PCTools Internet Security. VLC appeared to install when in reality it was getting blind sided by IS. I diabled IS, installed VLC, rebooted and all is OK. Seems there is a conflict between these two.
For the lockup all I had to do was to click on the icon - the app never opened, mouse froze, keyboard dead, had to push the reset.
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