Posted by testcrunch on 29th November 2006
Will be able to have another go at using the darn Nero 7 later after the AVG and XP nonsense of the last few days.
It does seem that if anything is installed like Nero 7 and Dreamweaver 8, which I have installed recently, there are ramifications sooner or later. After the install of those two apps when I was in Windows Explorer and fired up Chkdsk and checked the ‘Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors’ checkbox before running it. For some reason it could not run right away but it did schedule Chkdsk to being run on next boot up.
Which it tried to and failed. Rebooted and it found problems. Got to the end of its mashing of the data and after the next boot it took 20 minutes to start. Ran SFC which tidied up Windows but not well enough as I ended up running XP Setup which did sort things, mashing AVG on the way out.
Back to Nero and Dreaweaver from now on.
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‘Behind every great fortune there is a crime’ Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)
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Posted by testcrunch on 27th November 2006
Played around with Nero’s InCD a bit more, with CD-RW discs this time, and it’s still formatting too quickly.
No volume name either. Couldn’t save files to it nor drag and drop files onto the supposedly formatted disc. When I tried to save a word doc to it XP jumped in and attempted to format the disc. Still didn’t work though.
Don’t know why this is such hard work as I have been writing cd’s on computers for 10 years with no problem and yet this Nero stuff is flaky at best.
Have been using Internet Explorer v7 on the laptop occasionally for a couple of months and really don’t want to install it on my desktop as it is slow. And clunky. Will Microsoft ever write any software that runs quickly. XP was supposed to boot really quickly compared to Windows 2000 and it did for the first few months and then decay sets in and it takes longer and longer to boot up.
How many home pc’s run well after 2 years. Probably none. The hardware is still ok but by that time the operating system is mush, riddled with virus’s and spyware and a corrupt registry no doubt.
I had to rerun XP setup yesterday, after foolishly running a registry checker which, and after rebooting the PC, wouldn’t start. After finishing setup and the following reboot I tried the Windows Update rubbish, just to get the last few months worth of updates and it didn’t work. Failed to install. Got an error message which MS said I should Google for. A bit rich that they can’t give you an explanation for their own error message.
One of the Google’d sites said to check to make sure a couple of Services were running. They were. Its probably because I didn’t register the XP setup with Microsoft and therefore it hasn’t been verified despite the fact that I have already done the register at the previous setup. They probably thinks its not Genuine. Microsoft obviously has some code that makes me an unverified user as it has been told I have rerun setup but haven’t registered my name and address. Strange.
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‘A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done’ Fred Allen (1894-1956)
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Posted by testcrunch on 24th November 2006
Bought Nero 7. Not an application many people buy as there’s usually a version on any new PC.
Thought I’d run the InCD app to format a CDR so that I could drag and drop files to it. Appeared to format OK. Tried dragging and dropping and that didn’t work. Had a quick scan of the manual and it should format CDR’s but it also says that you’re supposed to enter a volume name, and I wasn’t asked to do that, and that the formatting takes between 10 and 40 minutes. My format lasted no more than two minutes.
Ran the Recode-DVD app on a non protected DVD. Failed at the finalising point. Better read that manual too. I think there are at least another 10 or so apps that make up this suite. Does seem a bit bloaty. And the apps obviously don’t work right out of the box.
No doubt they will give me plenty of opportunity to Google for all of the error messages I get and join a Nero newsgroup to get the low down on how do you actually get the darn thing to work. Another saga commences.
Update to the above: I was missing the aspi32.sys file which caused the above problems
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‘I hope that when I die, people say about me, ‘Boy that guy sure owed me a lot of money” Jack Handy
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