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Well i don't have any burning program cause my burner isn't working I could get anyone right now if you want me to test but my burner doesn't even recognize cd's.... ANY cd's....

burner

edit: .... looks like it's working i guess i'm gonna get nero or something now.... what do you guys suggest?

stops working right when i try to burn something

I suggest Nero, the best program there is, which let you tweak and setup every possible thing you can think of (and which your burner supports of course). There are many more user-friendly programs, but they all lack the things and options that you can do with Nero.

PS and sidenote: I'm actually glad that this has happend to you. Well not personaly, because that sucked bigtime, but it shows clearly that AutoRuns is better then programs like StartupPanel and such, because they wont show you all the startup keys often used by dodgy programs... So I hope other people are convinced now also.....

Hehehe, yeah true

Anyways i got nero, and yeah looks pretty sweet, now the problem is the burner seems to recognise only SOME cd's .... and sometimes it will read one and when i try again it won't.... and it never works with cd-r's..... time for a new burner I'm gonna hold off the "XP repair" til' I backup at least SOME files.... just in case

Oh yeah... forgot to say this... When you do a repair, you won't loose your programs (people are correct in saying that)... however, (and most people are forgetting to mention this) you will loose many settings from your programs because the registry will be partially erased/overwritten/fixed/whatever....

BTW, is it your recorder's fault? Have you tried it in another computer?

Yeah, i tried it on another computer and it doesn't work, i think the lens is messed up or something, i'm probably gonna go get it checked tomorrow

CR, once again, very useful info you've given me.... if it will reset everythign i might as well format.... lol

Problem solved then (why do CD readers/recorders last so short? )

Glad I could help

Yeah, i guess this thread can go off into the dark dark corners of these forums until i need help again. Thank you all of you, and special thanks to Lopardo and Cookie




To computer problems:

not only would having lots of programs interfear with proformance, but having your hard drive full of stuff can slow your computer down alot to.

ie: pics...movies...anything youve got on there

Yeah, I had tons of that, i went around cleaning and re-arraging everything

Right now i found a folder that is dodgy:

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrateur\Application Data

Now that contains several folders of several programs.... but some i just uninstalled

Look at this screen for a better idea, things circled in red are uninstalled, things in green i have no clue what they are, the rest i know and want:

http://www.bbfree.com/VGProManiac/uploads/post-2-1090205434.jpg

"InterTrust" Seems to be something that was installed with InterPlay WinDVD but i'm not sure (that's why it's half-half). The other two files on the bottom are The exe is always trying to access the internet and keeps putting itself on startup

Anyways, can i safely delete the folders circled in red? (or half red ) And what are the ones in green?