Thanks for this, I did a clean uninstall, cleaned up the registry, defragged, rebooted, downloaded the application again from the website, installed, tried to use it again and got the error message below. DVDFab still crashed, not much changed
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OS: Windows XP Home Edition, SP2
CPU: GenuineIntel, Intel Pentium 4, MMX @ 0 MHz

Module name: C:\Program Files\DVDFab Platinum 4\DVDFabPlatinum.exe

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