Sony Vegas Issue [Windows 7]

[aruna7]

I have recently purchased a new laptop (Win 7) that is powerful enough to vid in terms of hardware specs. I wanted to reinstall my Sony Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 10 on it (that ran on my 2 previous Win 7 computers, including a less powerful laptop). It installed but crashed as from that moment on.

I decided to purchase Sony Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 11, in hope that it would work. I get the menu screen, but whenever I click on "Install Sony Vegas Movie Studio" nothing happens. I checked the trouble shooting links from Sony website, and tried all that they offer on it, including trying to install from the trial versions. Nothing worked, and the trial versions won't even load, no matter what I do (so I don't even get the installer menu).

I now fear that I'll have to switch to another software, which really peeves me, as I've been working with various versions of Sony Vegas for 7 years. So, if anyone had any input or brilliant idea, I would be highly grateful!

I didn't find a software: sony vegas tag, so this post is tagless for the time being.

Comments

[shati]

This isn't even remotely specific to Vegas and may be unrelated (or may have been suggested by Sony already), but in Windows 7 there's an option "run as administrator" you can choose from the right-click menu on an installer (or a program). I would try that, if you haven't already. (Even though you are presumably logged in as an administrator.) If that doesn't work, you could try turning off User Account Control, at least temporarily.

ETA: All this assumes you can get to a point of right-clicking on an installer exe or something. If you're popping in an install CD that brings up that menu, you won't have that option, but if there's setup.exe or something on that disc if you navigate to it in Win explorer...

[aruna7]

Thanks for your comment, though I never got it to work on my laptop and just sent it back to get my money returned.

[chaila]

Did you ever find a solution to this issue or any idea what the deal was? I'm in the process of buying a new laptop and ran into a similar problem with a Windows 8 computer. The trial version won't even install. (Though on a different Windows 8 computer, Vegas Movie Studio installed fine).

[aruna7]

I ended returning my Vegas copy to get my money back, as nothing ever worked. I'll do no vidding on that laptop. Thank God, the desktop still had the older Vegas Studio Platinum 10 work on it!