The absolute worst in CD/DVD burning?

[jamesatqmul]

I actually had to register just to post this once, as I'm so amazed at how terrible Roxio products are.

 

I installed easy media creator 10, it took almost 45 minutes. Its a dual core, 4gb ddr2 running in parallel, 160gb 16meg cache hdd with a 512 graphics card. Not your average office machine.

 

Without prompting it installed a gazillion other smaller roxio programs, I don't want. Weird media managers and such whose only job seems to be to slow down my PC.

 

Now I want to uninstall it. Wow, surprise as the product is SOOO good. A grand total of 9 seperate uninstalls were required for each annoying little 'creator copy' or the update manager. God knows what. I suppose having an uninstall which actually gets rid of the program is beyond Roxio.

 

Oh yes, now lets talk about the 10 coasters roxio burnt for me. Whereas the run of the mill WINDOWS dvd copying worked better, faster, and with no coasters.

 

 

I can't believe I spent money on such a useless product, I feel like a total mug.

[Beerman]

I'm surprised with the install time. For me, v10 was the least painful and fastest. I do agree on the "gazillion other smaller programs" as it appears at times choosing not to install some make no difference.

As for the reason there are so many programs to uninstall, I believe that's because it's due to Vista. I have other programs I've installed (in Vista) that have added parts and think for an 'new and improved' OS, this is not necessary.

And to why you're making coasters, again I find that puzzling. Seems like Roxio is being bothered by something else on your system. Do you have a similar program installed? Exactly what were you doing (audio, video, photo) when you get these coasters and what are the error messages, if any? With some detail, maybe we can offer some help.

[ggrussell]

A grand total of 9 seperate

This is a REQUIREMENT to be Vista Certified. Previous versions did have only one entry in Add/Remove apps. Any other 'suite' that includes several applications will be exactly the same.

 

Registering to post on the forum keeps down spambots and as far as I know, ALL forums are that way.

 

Now if you would like help, would be nice to know more like which application were you using? what brand of CD/DVD burner? etc....

[barryware]

This is a REQUIREMENT to be Vista Certified. Previous versions did have only one entry in Add/Remove apps. Any other 'suite' that includes several applications will be exactly the same.

Not to be confrontational...

 

I never challenged it because I just didn't know..

 

I have just finished up setting up a new laptop that will be a Christmas gift. The setup means removing all the worthless junk that comes with a new computer (trial ware, light versions, etc.) and installing real purchased software. This rig has Vista Home Premium and is an HP.

 

I uninstalled a lot of junk but there were three packages / suites with multiple apps / modules.

 

The three packages I uninstalled were:

Works - Fully functional.

Office 2007 - Student & Teacher edition. This is supposed to be fully functional for 60 days (two months) and then you have to buy a new license.

Some type of Corel suite that was a light version.

 

All had only one entry in add/remove even though there were several apps / modules in the start menu. However, Office did have a second entry for the Office Update Engine.. Something like that.

 

I did notice that the rig also had some roxio/sonic stuff on it which I left alone and there were several entries in add/remove for the roxio/sonic stuff.

 

So.. Which is it?

[grandpabruce]

Looks like Jimmy may be a hit and run poster.

[John at Roxio]

Although some people do have bad experiences, the experience is not typical. We have literally hundreds of thousands of users that buy the software that never contact support. But the reason you aren't reading about them, is that they didn't have any problems, so they didn't come here.

 

Here is someone's that saw both sides of the coin http://forums.support.roxio.com/index.php?showtopic=31709

[sknis]

I did notice that the rig also had some roxio/sonic stuff on it which I left alone and there were several entries in add/remove for the roxio/sonic stuff.

I just got an HP laptop and it came with a OEM basic edition of EMC 9. That program has a media import, slide show Assistant, MyDVD (lite) and a regular MyDVD. That's it.

 

It is interesting that "movee 6" (very limited edition) showed up on the Roxio home page .