What is your favoured software for burning CDs/DVDs?

[wparsonsgisnet]

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John and Bill, thank you for support. Thus far it looks like Nero is less intrusive than Roxio on Windows machines.

 

I did try to curb Roxio's ambitions. Perhaps I should try again using advice given here.

 

Isn't it surprising that in a world when advanced technology seems to know no limits, a fairly basic task like controlling a CD or DVD burn should be fraught with so many frustrations!

 

David

 

David, to get rid of the Roxio install, I suggest you use the XP roll back procedure. It returns all the settings (interrupts, I presume, and registry stuff) to the *correct* place, where they were before Roxio spread its virus.

 

I was thinking about this whole thread earlier today and wondering why M-$oft, who brings out new features momentarily, did not give windoze users full-service CD/DVD burning functionality.

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[wda]

you dont need a extra software, just burn your file direkt from every application or the "desktop"

Jan, I agree with your simple approach. It does work. However once you have tried programmes like Roxio you realise that you have much more information to control the build up of data for the next burn. It also allows you to double check file sizes etc and it gives a running measure of how much spare capacity your disc has. I would like to retain that degree of control without the unwanted dangerous side effects.

 

David

[wda]

I received some advice effectively to disable Roxio's appropriation of my files. The version 8 which I have seems not to have any menu controls to do this.

 

Today I received another example of Roxio's pernicious behaviour.

 

I scanned some film on my Nikon scanner producing TIF files with my Acer Windows laptop computer. I then used a pen drive to copy them to my Windows desktop machine and placed them in a folder using Windows Explorer. When they left my laptop they were 'tif' files. When they arrived on my desktop they had become Roxio PhotoSuite TIF!

 

I do not use PhotoSuite and have done all I can to disable Roxio's interference, without success. Has anyone a bright idea short of ditching Roxio?

 

David

[wparsonsgisnet]

David, if you are in windoze, your last suggestion is the correct one.

[wda]

Bill,

 

Thank you. I am sure you are right.

 

David

[johnjs]

I received some advice effectively to disable Roxio's appropriation of my files. The version 8 which I have seems not to have any menu controls to do this.

 

Today I received another example of Roxio's pernicious behaviour.

 

I scanned some film on my Nikon scanner producing TIF files with my Acer Windows laptop computer. I then used a pen drive to copy them to my Windows desktop machine and placed them in a folder using Windows Explorer. When they left my laptop they were 'tif' files. When they arrived on my desktop they had become Roxio PhotoSuite TIF!

 

I do not use PhotoSuite and have done all I can to disable Roxio's interference, without success. Has anyone a bright idea short of ditching Roxio?

 

David

 

Hi David,

 

In My Computer, click on Tools and then Folder Options. In Folder Options, click on File Types. There you can assign what program opens every file type on your computer.

 

best-John

[wda]

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John,

 

Thank you. A useful reminder for an action I had overlooked. However it doesn't explain why Roxio over-rode the previous attribution where I had set tif files to open in Photoshop. Roxio actually changed the file type.

 

It has had its day. It no longer resides on my computer.

 

Thanks to everybody who contributed to this thread.

 

David