Just wanted to describe the problems I’ve had as a result of installing EMC 8.05. (I opened a ticket with tech support last week but have not gotten a response yet.)
I have used EMC since its “Easy CD Creator v4” incarnation. Prior to installing EMC 8.05, EMC 7.5 was running on my machine without any major problems. When EMC 8 was released, I decided to upgrade to see if some of the minor operational & interface annoyances of EMC 7.5 were removed. After installing EMC 8.05 (purchased the program via download and NO, I did not mistakenly use the retail disk update), I thought everything ran fine. However, you should be aware that I only use the simplest of the CD and DVD writing and “drag & drop” functionality. (The video & audio stuff is just baggage for me. I have other programs for that. All I want is the fastest, most efficient and reliable cd/dvd writing program for backing up photographs and miscellaneous investment & financial data files on the run between my routine full HD backups.)
Just before leaving for my Christmas break, I decided to add some cds to my iTunes library and synchronize my ipod. iTunes worked fine, including playing mp3 files. However, the moment I put a cd in my drive to add to the library, iTunes froze. The only way out was to use my machine’s reset button. Windows Task Manager was useless for getting the system unfrozen. Since EMC 8 was the last major change I’d made to the system, I uninstalled it. Sure enough, iTunes then worked fine and could read cds again. I tried reinstalling EMC 8.05 using about a half dozen variations and nothing helped. Anytime I put a disk in either my cd drive (Plexwriter Premium) or dvd drive (Plextor PX-716A), iTunes froze. I checked and updated the firmware in both drives and iTunes still froze. I later found the same thing happened with Windows Media Player 10. WMP worked fine until I put a cd in either drive. It would then freeze and the only recourse was the always dependable reset button. After uninstalling EMC 8.05 a “final” time and kicking myself for letting the unconditional 30-day return period elapse, I went back to using the Windows CD Writing Wizard (which is a pain) until I tried to write to a disk that was initially created using EMC and I got an error message that the format (cd-R) was not recognized. At this point, I decided to revert to EMC 7.5 and consequently reinstalled it. However, now EMC 7.5 would not read either the cd or dvd drive!!! So, I thought “Screw it! Back to to Wizard.” However, after I uninstalled EMC 7.5, both my cd and dvd drives could not be used by windows. Using Device Manager, I found that both drives were marked with the Yellow Exclamation Points and a message to the effect that the drives’ drivers could not be initialized with an error identification “Code 39.” (By the way, at this point, I was rather pissed off.) Uninstalling the drives & drivers via Device Manager and reinstalling did not help. Physically removing, rebooting and then re-installing the drives did not help. Deleting every driver associated with the drives that was not published by Microsoft did not help. Searching my drive for every occurrence of “Roxio” and deleting the file, folder, etc did not help. Using a registry editor to find & delete every key containing the word “Roxio” did not help. What did work was using the fix described in this Microsoft Knowledge Base article for Easy CD Creator 5: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060/en-us . For now, I’m back to using the Windows CD Writing Wizard and will not even consider reinstalling EMC version whatever until an update is released. As already mentioned in another thread, IMHO, EMC 8.05 is NOT ready for prime time!! YMMV.
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Just wanted to describe the problems I’ve had as a result of installing EMC 8.05. (I opened a ticket with tech support last week but have not gotten a response yet.)
I have used EMC since its “Easy CD Creator v4” incarnation. Prior to installing EMC 8.05, EMC 7.5 was running on my machine without any major problems. When EMC 8 was released, I decided to upgrade to see if some of the minor operational & interface annoyances of EMC 7.5 were removed. After installing EMC 8.05 (purchased the program via download and NO, I did not mistakenly use the retail disk update), I thought everything ran fine. However, you should be aware that I only use the simplest of the CD and DVD writing and “drag & drop” functionality. (The video & audio stuff is just baggage for me. I have other programs for that. All I want is the fastest, most efficient and reliable cd/dvd writing program for backing up photographs and miscellaneous investment & financial data files on the run between my routine full HD backups.)
Just before leaving for my Christmas break, I decided to add some cds to my iTunes library and synchronize my ipod. iTunes worked fine, including playing mp3 files. However, the moment I put a cd in my drive to add to the library, iTunes froze. The only way out was to use my machine’s reset button. Windows Task Manager was useless for getting the system unfrozen. Since EMC 8 was the last major change I’d made to the system, I uninstalled it. Sure enough, iTunes then worked fine and could read cds again. I tried reinstalling EMC 8.05 using about a half dozen variations and nothing helped. Anytime I put a disk in either my cd drive (Plexwriter Premium) or dvd drive (Plextor PX-716A), iTunes froze. I checked and updated the firmware in both drives and iTunes still froze. I later found the same thing happened with Windows Media Player 10. WMP worked fine until I put a cd in either drive. It would then freeze and the only recourse was the always dependable reset button. After uninstalling EMC 8.05 a “final” time and kicking myself for letting the unconditional 30-day return period elapse, I went back to using the Windows CD Writing Wizard (which is a pain) until I tried to write to a disk that was initially created using EMC and I got an error message that the format (cd-R) was not recognized. At this point, I decided to revert to EMC 7.5 and consequently reinstalled it. However, now EMC 7.5 would not read either the cd or dvd drive!!! So, I thought “Screw it! Back to to Wizard.” However, after I uninstalled EMC 7.5, both my cd and dvd drives could not be used by windows. Using Device Manager, I found that both drives were marked with the Yellow Exclamation Points and a message to the effect that the drives’ drivers could not be initialized with an error identification “Code 39.” (By the way, at this point, I was rather pissed off.) Uninstalling the drives & drivers via Device Manager and reinstalling did not help. Physically removing, rebooting and then re-installing the drives did not help. Deleting every driver associated with the drives that was not published by Microsoft did not help. Searching my drive for every occurrence of “Roxio” and deleting the file, folder, etc did not help. Using a registry editor to find & delete every key containing the word “Roxio” did not help. What did work was using the fix described in this Microsoft Knowledge Base article for Easy CD Creator 5: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060/en-us . For now, I’m back to using the Windows CD Writing Wizard and will not even consider reinstalling EMC version whatever until an update is released. As already mentioned in another thread, IMHO, EMC 8.05 is NOT ready for prime time!! YMMV.
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