As if enough hasn't already been said about this...
I'm writing this to sum up where we're at now, and hopefully some problems still present will be resolved.
I've been running Vista for about a week and a half now... I bought a new PC that's more than capable of handling it, and Vista was included.
I bought Easy Media Creator yesterday, for two reasons:
1. My new PC came bundled with Easy Media Creator Basic, which seemed to run fine on Vista, and
2. The Roxio website clearly lists Vista among the other compatible operating systems, under "System Requirements". Take a look... it's still written there.
Problems encountered so far:
Drag-To-Disc generated an alert that the driver was incompatible, and Vista shut it down... once. This problem cropped up after I'd installed EMC9 and booted up a few times... so apparently the first few boots weren't a problem. I've booted a number of times since the alert, with no problem as well. Drag-To-Disc is still active on my machine... although I haven't tried to use it for anything yet.
VideoWave sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. I'm in advertising, so I have a number of files in different formats that require editing. I was hoping that VideoWave could handle a good variety, but loading some of them have actually made my video driver crash... four or five times within a minute's time. This is a problem.
What's creepier, though, is the repeated attempts by EMC9 to access the internet. It seems that just about every program in the suite wants to connect when it's started, and when given permission, "agent.exe" attempts connection immediately after. I can understand the "Home" function's need to connect, because it contains live content in the center window. Why the other programs require this remains a mystery... especially since I've turned the "Check for updates at startup" feature off. Not once have I been asked to activate the MPEG2 driver. I would have done so willingly, if prompted.
Finally, as someone who religiously cleans out cookies at the end of a session, I have to mention that I was REALLY disappointed that Roxio chose this path to log registrations. It's flimsy, annoying, and because of this method, I suspect that many users who have adware or spyware removal programs will continuously be wiping out their registration info. This is very bad.
As for Vista, all I can say at the moment is that EMC9 is not the only buggy item. Vista is always surprising me with odd incompatibility issues... It seems to have a long way to go before people will be able to use the new OS for much more than sending emails and surfing the web. So no... I'm not blaming Roxio for 100% of the problems I'm experiencing. Even my USB Hard Drive caused a .dll crash just this evening.
What I would complain to Roxio about, is that I'm stuck at this point running my newly purchased version of EMC9 on an operating system that's far from 100% functional, while at the same time I have a completely trustworthy and reliable laptop with XP on it, and because of the strict licensing policy, I can't install on both machines and A/B problems I'm experiencing, based on the operating systems I use. So I have no real way of determining whether the files are the problem, or the software, or the OS. And in the meantime I'm stuck with a main system that barely does any of the tasks that I need to do.
All things considered, not a great week. And no... the new PC is not a Dell.
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As if enough hasn't already been said about this...
I'm writing this to sum up where we're at now, and hopefully some problems still present will be resolved.
I've been running Vista for about a week and a half now... I bought a new PC that's more than capable of handling it, and Vista was included.
I bought Easy Media Creator yesterday, for two reasons:
1. My new PC came bundled with Easy Media Creator Basic, which seemed to run fine on Vista, and
2. The Roxio website clearly lists Vista among the other compatible operating systems, under "System Requirements". Take a look... it's still written there.
Problems encountered so far:
Drag-To-Disc generated an alert that the driver was incompatible, and Vista shut it down... once. This problem cropped up after I'd installed EMC9 and booted up a few times... so apparently the first few boots weren't a problem. I've booted a number of times since the alert, with no problem as well. Drag-To-Disc is still active on my machine... although I haven't tried to use it for anything yet.
VideoWave sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. I'm in advertising, so I have a number of files in different formats that require editing. I was hoping that VideoWave could handle a good variety, but loading some of them have actually made my video driver crash... four or five times within a minute's time. This is a problem.
What's creepier, though, is the repeated attempts by EMC9 to access the internet. It seems that just about every program in the suite wants to connect when it's started, and when given permission, "agent.exe" attempts connection immediately after. I can understand the "Home" function's need to connect, because it contains live content in the center window. Why the other programs require this remains a mystery... especially since I've turned the "Check for updates at startup" feature off. Not once have I been asked to activate the MPEG2 driver. I would have done so willingly, if prompted.
Finally, as someone who religiously cleans out cookies at the end of a session, I have to mention that I was REALLY disappointed that Roxio chose this path to log registrations. It's flimsy, annoying, and because of this method, I suspect that many users who have adware or spyware removal programs will continuously be wiping out their registration info. This is very bad.
As for Vista, all I can say at the moment is that EMC9 is not the only buggy item. Vista is always surprising me with odd incompatibility issues... It seems to have a long way to go before people will be able to use the new OS for much more than sending emails and surfing the web. So no... I'm not blaming Roxio for 100% of the problems I'm experiencing. Even my USB Hard Drive caused a .dll crash just this evening.
What I would complain to Roxio about, is that I'm stuck at this point running my newly purchased version of EMC9 on an operating system that's far from 100% functional, while at the same time I have a completely trustworthy and reliable laptop with XP on it, and because of the strict licensing policy, I can't install on both machines and A/B problems I'm experiencing, based on the operating systems I use. So I have no real way of determining whether the files are the problem, or the software, or the OS. And in the meantime I'm stuck with a main system that barely does any of the tasks that I need to do.
All things considered, not a great week. And no... the new PC is not a Dell.
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