I found in your log file these programs: ATOK and ARK disc? What is the pupose of those? There is a possibility that one of these conflicts with AnyDVD.
ATOK: A Japanese input method editor developed by JustSystems (
www.justsystems.com). Many people use the same kind of thing named MS-IME developed by Microsoft, which comes with every version of Microsoft Windows OS Japanese edition. ATOK is better and more efficient software, but you need to pay about 60 dollars or so. The Japanese writing system consists of a set of 48
kana characters and another set of 48
katakana characters, plus a set of 2,136 regular Chinese characters as well as about 50,000 less common Chinese characters. A computer key board does not have that many keys. So we need to pick characters from a pronunciation. How to use it: you write a pronunciation by using the English alphabet, for example. Then press the space key and ATOK will show several choices that match that pronunciation. You press the Enter key when you find the fitting choice. ATOK is that kind of program, so it probably does not conflict with AnyDVD. If it does, many Japanese users cannot use AnyDVD.
If I type
kimono, I get eleven choices from ATOK. Microsoft IME or MS-IME shows eight choices, and most of them are useless.
ARK: A backup software like Acronis True Image, but much easier to use. Developed by ARK Information Systems (
www.ark-info-sys.co.jp), it backs up the entire system drive and later restores it from a backup file it created. The one I installed in the computer at hand is Version 12 (ARK HD Revolution Backup 12). The task manager shows that it is running in the background. That is probably because it can also back up any drive regularly, but I have not set up a backup schedule, so I do not think it is doing anything in particular. It is difficult to imagine that it conflicts with AnyDVD.