Delays

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A little over a month ago, the Hard Disk Drive on my wife's laptop failed, with the only copy of Hoster on it. About eighteen days later, it was replaced with an SSD. A few days later, I sent a 'help ticket' to MTU asking what we should/could do, having lost the drive with Hoster installed. after several days without a reply, I decided to pay for an upgrade, as my wife wanted her karaoke back.

The 6+ year old laptop now has a 120GB SSD, Intel Core i3 CPU, M350 2.27GHz Processor, 64-bit OS & 4GB RAM. Before the HDD fail, it was running Windows 7, but the Tech guy who replaced the drive, upgraded it to Windows 10, which I wasn't happy about. This new OS now seems to have deleted the "Windows.old" file, so without paying AGAIN, we can't get back to Windows 7.

We now find that Hoster will not run properly, with long delays loading being the issue. While starting up quickly, it's taking a minimum of seven minutes to load a playlist (a few dozen files). Then when clicking to play a song, there is a delay of at least ten minutes (the song files are on an External HDD). which makes using the program intolerable. I decided to try downloading and installing an older version "Hosterlite 422.8" to see if I could get that running better, but both the current and previous Registration Codes were rejected in the installation process.

Please help with resolving these problems as this is my wife's only entertainment/relaxation outlet that she enjoys.