In common settings pathplayer check disable pathplayer. Also the clean un install you did was it the link in stormjumper signature. If not I suggest doing it again and follow his advice word for word. The retry/abort I believe will not happen if you disable pathplayer but I do not recomend that as the default setting works for me on both vista and xp. EDIT: A laptop with vista I believe will not be 64bit but I can be wrong