VP no longer viable on two different laptops

[Ross Miller]

I have used my HP Pavilion x360 i3 laptop for 6 years and made scores of videos with Videopad. When that laptop (laptop#1) started having issues booting up AND when VP started getting annoyingly laggy with it, I upgraded to another HP with the same RAM and twice the SSD space (laptop#2). When I had the same issue with VP continuing with the same laggy performance and constant issues with video not syncing with the audio, I returned laptop #2 and went with a Lenovo Yoga (laptop#3) with an i7 and 16G RAM. I've upgraded both #1 and #3 to version 16.08 after MANY attempts to do the simplest editing of my now-much-delayed 10 min long project. Throwing in the towel rather than try to make the original video from the beginning with what I had accomplished so far, now I've simply started from scratch on both laptops. I've loaded the raw footage, and after a single simple edit the video and audio don't sync. It's the exact same problem on both machines. Can I tell you just how incredibly frustrating this is? I'm willing to edit my video in smaller chunks and stitch it all together later, but I can't do a single edit without the program becoming useless. Laptop #3 is a brand-new machine and I've used it for nothing else. Any ideas?

[borate]

Install this release.  For licensed users upgrades are free for up to six months from purchase date.  After that, VP will continue to fully function but a fee is required in order to register the newest.  Retain your old install file and registration info.  If there's an issue, you can always revert.

If no change, please share a project so the sync issue can be seen and analyzed.  That's the best way to get to the root of issues.  Follow these steps;  takes only minutes...

•     Back up --- With your project on the timeline, click on MENU at the top-left.  Click FILE|BACK UP PROJECT FILES TO FOLDER.  Choose a folder and SELECT FOLDER.
•     Upload ---  Use a free server - Google Drive, MS OneDrive, etc.* - to upload the saved, numbered FOLDER.    Do NOT upload the individual VPJ or export file. 
•     Get link --- Get a public link.  Right-click the file and click SHARE. When using Google Drive, if necessary change "restricted" to "anyone with the link can view" 
•     Share ---     Click COPY LINK | DONE.  Paste that link here, or click the folder at the top-right of this forum to message it privately to me.  It won't be shared.

          *    Before uploading, right-click the folder, click PROPERTIES.  Look at the File Size to confirm that it's not too big for the free space on the server.