[Ham-Computers] Windows XP and CD/DVD-R/RW

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

Thanks to all those who responded.  

FWIW, I finally beat Easy Media into submission.  Since I own two legit 
copies of both V7 and V8, they are also free.  But I'll keep the names of the 
two other diskburners I received.  JIC.

I discovered that (a) I was unnecessarily (unwittingly?) installing one of 
the bells and whistles I didn't want.  And that (b) something must have gone 
wrong during the previous install.  Although I thought I had set the eject 
defaults to leave the disk as writable, I discovered that every time I 
ejected a disk, it was changing back to setting it for use on other computers.  
Which set the write-protect flag (maybe among other things).  I must have 
once ejected it without noticing it was going to do this.

So I uninstalled V7.  Then ran Registry Mechanic, rebooted, ran RegMech 
once more just to be sure.  And then installed V8 with nothing but Drag to Disc 
selected.  Loaded the disk that I previously was unable to write to.  And 
successfully backed up our !@#$% tax return.  I honestly think that the 
problem wouldn't have been nearly as aggravating if I had been doing something I 
wanted to do instead of had to.  :-)

Robert Downs - Houston
wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
MVPA 9480