Sound Packager NOT Working

I also attempted to load SP via on my new Vista Home Premium (via Impulse) laptop and it would not run. I uninstalled and was waiting to see if something got ironed out in a future update. It installed fine and works on my Windows XP machine.  

Same here...worked through a series of emails with Support but was not able to get it working. NOT supports fault I just lost interest after a while after a couple emails.

I'm curious what your hardware specs are....

Mine's an ASUS F8Va laptop running 32-bit Vista

Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor T9400 2.53 GHz, 1066MHz, 6MB On-Die L2 Cache

Mobile Intel® PM45 Express Chipset +ICH9M

4GB DDR2 800 MHz SDRAM, 2 x SODIMM

ATI Mobility™ Radeon® HD 3650, External 1024MB VRAM

320GB,5400rpm HDD

DVD Super Multi Double Layer

8-in-1 card reader, SD,MMC,MS,MS-Pro,mini SD w/ adapter,MS-Duo

Integrated Intel® High Definition Audio chip (Azalia)

compliant MDC fax/modem and 10/100/1000 BaseT

Built-in Bluetooth™ V2.1+EDR

Intel® WiMAX/WiFi Link 5100

1.3 Mega Pixel swivel web camera

Surprisingly I had not used Sound Packaage on the my Vista Home Premium 64 bit system.  I had downloaded but never used it until now.  It seems to work fine with the sounds that come with it.  I have not download a new theme though.  I will do that and let you know what happens. 

It works find on my XP Home 32 bits system which is an older off the shelf Gateway 510, my Vista computer is an off the shelf Gateway LX6810-01.

It seems I remember that there were some problems early on, have you folks tooked through the WC forums?

Lantec........ Mine is an ASUS too. Similar specs to yours. Model N51V. I too decided to not pursue getting SP to work because the unit is working so beautiffuly I simply didn't want to disturb it. 

Additional specs

Not sure if this link will help, there is a fix that help me when I broke Sound Packager on my XP system.  http://philly0381.wincustomize.com/articles.aspx?aid=307401

I attempted to reinstall via Impulse. After downloading and extracting, Impulse reported the program would not install. I shut down Impulse in order to clear the repeating popup stating the install failed, and at the last second I saw a box saying install was successful. There were 3 themes in the appdata file, and I removed all but Stardock default. The files had no program association so I associated it to SP. I then ran SP and it failed. I then "opened" the theme from the appdata file location and it failed. 

As this is far from a "must have" item, I think I will just remove it and move on before I screw something up in an otherwise perfect system. It is sort of too bad because I really like the SP Stardock theme.

Philly0381 thanks for the input.  

One last thought. My ASUS has something called "FancyStart" and it plays a changeable tone and changeable splash screen prior to loading Windows. Even disabled via msconfig, and removed from Startup folder, it still plays. It is possible that this process interferes with SP. Just a thought but there are 2 ASUS machines in this thread that have the same problem with SP. 

Ichi that may very well be the problem.  It might be time to email [email protected] and see if they can confirm if it is.

maybe this will help.......Process explorer screenshot

Resolved..

Soundpackager must be in your public / documents / stardock folder

Even though I have directed soundpackage (thru advanced settings) to use my documents folder, it is looking for the stardock folder in your public documents folder..

Hey, it works!!