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[mgshn]

Is there any way to remove Drag-to-Disk from my system (and my life).  It would be nice if there was a preference setting (as exists in most programs)  that allows for it not starting after a reboot.  (I can have it not appear on my task bar but it runs anyway.)  The reason I'm asking is that I never use it and have found that when it is active other programs which I do use don't work.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.

[Beerman]

mgshn, on Jan 4 2006, 06:05 PM, said:

Is there any way to remove Drag-to-Disk from my system (and my life).  It would be nice if there was a preference setting (as exists in most programs)  that allows for it not starting after a reboot.  (I can have it not appear on my task bar but it runs anyway.)  The reason I'm asking is that I never use it and have found that when it is active other programs which I do use don't work.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.

You should be able to simply go to the add/remove in control panel and select a modify of Roxio.  However, some has said this doesn't seem to completely remove it. I don't know as I haven't had it installed to begin with.

[jeanrosenfeld]

You can stop it from starting on restart using msconfig or any startup manager app. Just uncheck it from the startup items, and restart.

[mgshn]

jeanrosenfeld, on Jan 4 2006, 07:43 PM, said:

You can stop it from starting on restart using msconfig or any startup manager app. Just uncheck it from the startup items, and restart.

That's it... Thanks!  Easy enough now that I know about the msconfig trick!

Regards,

Bob

[remichal]

It's easier to tell Drag-To-Disc not to start unless a CD is inserted.  Open Drag-To-Disc and click on the menu icon.  Select "Settings" and then uncheck "Show Drag-To-Disc on startup".

[dlebryk]

remichal, on Jan 9 2006, 04:49 PM, said:

It's easier to tell Drag-To-Disc not to start unless a CD is inserted.  Open Drag-To-Disc and click on the menu icon.  Select "Settings" and then uncheck "Show Drag-To-Disc on startup".

The only downside to your solution, the ap still runs in Processes, the icon just doesn't show up. Using MSCONFIG is the only real way to make it quit using system resources (I think the original question was how to rid themselves of this beastly - my words - program). Yep, it is a beastly program.

[purdue18]

dlebryk, on Jan 9 2006, 05:09 PM, said:

The only downside to your solution, the ap still runs in Processes, the icon just doesn't show up. Using MSCONFIG is the only real way to make it quit using system resources (I think the original question was how to rid themselves of this beastly - my words - program). Yep, it is a beastly program.

Ya i did the same go to run then type MSCONFIG and select starup and then uncheck it.

[remichal]

As an experiment I just checked msconfig and Drag-To-Disc is not activated.  I then went back into DTD and rechecked the "Show Drag-To-Disc on startup" box.  Restarted the machine and viola, msconfig showed it reactivated.  I then went back and unchecked "Show Drag-To-Disc on startup", restarted and opened msconfig and it was deactivated there too.  Go figure.

[JEK]

I manually uninstalled Roxio 9 via their instructions, yet Drag to Disk is still there. I can't burn a CD without it taking over. I've gone to msconfig, I've checked the registry, everywhere and the only files that are lingering are in system32. Are these roxio dll's safe to delete or will it mess up the CD drive?

[sknis]

I manually uninstalled Roxio 9 via their instructions, yet Drag to Disk is still there. I can't burn a CD without it taking over. I've gone to msconfig, I've checked the registry, everywhere and the only files that are lingering are in system32. Are these roxio dll's safe to delete or will it mess up the CD drive?

Try downloading and looking in MicroSoft Installer Clean up utility.  It might be there.  Just delete it.  Read the warnings.