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Summary: Giving up!
Review: I am finally surrendering. I was a former Adaptec Easy CD fan; I am now a Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 Platinum victim. I view myself as a reasonably sophisticated PC user, but I have struggled with this program endlessly. I attempted utilization on multiple (3) Windows XP machines in our home. These include 2 Gateway systems (Pentium III and IV) and one new Dell (Pentium IV) with 3 different CD burners. In spite of multiple reinstallations, upgrade downloads and endless hours of frustration, the software simply does not work. It will typically "freeze" while recording, ultimately crashing the system. I would NOT recommend a Roxio product under any circumstance.
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Summary: Easy... but is it worth it?
Review: It works and produces few coasters... but is incompatible with many other programs. I installed securecrt and then easy cd creator wouldn't start. Finally I gave up and installed Nero... now I'm never going back. Easy cd creator is easy, but ... Nero is the better choice.
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Summary: This program fried my operating system!
Review: Roxio CD creator 5 corrupted my Windows 2000 operating system. I installed CD Creator 5 and rebooted my computer only to find that my computer would not reboot--ever! I had to reformat my hard drive and reinstall everything. It took me several days to get my compter working again. I can see this happening with shareware or freeware---but this is 'real' software that costs money. Use at your own risk!
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Summary: Forget it - bad XP install, lousy support, and more ...
Review: I got Easy CD Creator 5 (last November) to install on my new Win XP computer, because Easy CD Creator 4 won't work there. Well, neither does Easy CD Creator 5! I followed every step Roxio provided and downloaded their Win XP upgrade. I've done this five times! I just tried again today after having to completely reinstall Win XP and all my software, because the Easy CD Creator 5 install made my CD unuseable even by Windows XP standard CD writing program. And Roxio's support has been absolutely lousy. They gave me both an 866 and toll number to call. But the 866 line just told me all circuits were busy and the toll number told me their support is only open 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. I tried to install it again anyway and, yup! My CD is unuseable for writing anymore and I can't even get back to the restore point I created! I'm not sure what Roxio's install is doing, but no software should be so difficult and dangerous to install that a two page instruction sheet has to be followed to delete files and directories (including InstallShield!) and edit the registry to delete keys.Oh, I installed it on my Win98 PC to see if it worked there OK. It seemed to, but I found out it wouldn't read any of the CDs I had created with V4 as DirectCD disks. In fact, it made them unreadable even after I restored V4. Roxio told me that is a known problem and they are working on it! But they wouldn't tell me when it would be fixed or how I would know if it ever was! If you want all the details, email me and I'll send you the complete list of emails I've received from them.
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Summary: Works fine, but wreaks havoc with the PC at restart
Review: There's a known bug with the latest version - once installed, the PC can take - LITERALLY - hours to boot. I have a Gateway that's 4 months old. Worked fine until I installed the new version of this program. Now it takes 194 minutes - give or take 10 minutes - for the computer to power on. What's worse, whatever their new drivers are doing disables the keyboard until windows starts. That means I can't do a "last known good" start or a safe mode start. I am DOA. Roxio has no fix, except to state that booting into safe mode can help (it would be nice if I could!) or to disconnect the CD drives each time the PC is booted (right - like I'm going to open the PC, yank the cables, start the PC, and re-attach the cables each time I power cycle?A?) It's a great product - but it's basically trashed my PC. What really ticks me off is that Roxio KNEW about this but but gave no warning. So beware - if you install this product, you may learn the true meaning of "multitasking" - you can go and get multiple tasks done while your PC boots.
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Summary: Simply The Best
Review: This is one of the few pieces of software that I own that does exactly what it says it will do. I have tried Nero and I do not think it can compare to Roxio. I am in the process of converting my old and scratchy vinyl to cd as well as download and making compliations. Not bad for an old lady.
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Summary: step 1 - install Roxio, Step 2 - reinstall W2000
Review: I bought this software to transfer vinyl records to CD.
I previously had B's Recorder Gold which is simple and reliable.
Step 1 - I uninstalled Gold.
Step 2 - I installed Roxio.
Step 3 - because Roxio did not recognize my CD-RW, I downloaded the Roxio patch for Roxio.
Step 4 - because Roxio still did not recognize my CD-RW, I downloaded the Roxio patch for the CD driver.
Step 5 - because windows now no longer saw my CD drive, I emailed Roxio.
Step 6 - because Roxio after various iterations told me it was a W2000 problem, I emailed microsoft as advised.
Step 7 - because I have a Dell, I emailed Dell because MS told me that OEM systems were only supported by the supplier.
Step 8 - I got numerous emails back from Dell, which not only did not solve the problem, but in most cases did not even relate to the question. Eventually Dell said that they would not tell me how to replace the driver, because I had a CD-RW and not the CD-R that my system shipped with. ( it is the same driver ). They could not tell me how to replace the driver - the Dell resource CD for restoring portions of windows only includes custom Dell drivers.
Step 9 - I reinstalled W2000 and Roxio, on the assumption that Gold was not fully removed on last install.
Step ... - reinstall W2000 again, and Roxio.
Step I lost track - finally got Roxio up, but it will not see my sound card. I uninstalled everything of Roxio except what I wanted i.e. the software to break record into tracks, and even this won't work.
Final Step - the record player sits beside my machine. I records sit in the cupboard. I use Gold for backups, and love it.
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Summary: More bugs than an ant farm!
Review: Like many other reviewers, I had been using--and loving--Easy CD Creator for years. When it was an Adaptec product, I had little or no problems, and burned dozens of problem-free CDs. Now, under Windows XP, Easy CD Creator (V 5.1 with upgrade patch) has become a piece of garbage. I'm now producing more coasters than usable CDs. At first, I thought it was the burner itself, but the unit works fine when using MusicMatch software (an occasional problem emerges, but not to the degree that I'm ready to pull my hair out). I will simply write this off as a bad investment and will never buy another Roxio product. I would not give 5.1 any stars!!!
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Summary: Don't Buy
Review: This program is not ready for users of Microsoft XP. This will harmn your system.
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Summary: SOLUTION to installing Easy CD Creator on WinXP
Review: Easy SOLUTION (It worked for me using Easy CD Creator 5 Basic) to why Roxio will not install on WinXP (re: data.cab error message 1311, cant read Data.cab) Copy (not move) the entire CD to a dummy directory on your hard drive(for example c:TEMPINSTALL.). Remove the CD. Then execute the setup (Setup.exe) from this temp directory in the hard drive.. I also have had to do this for some other programs under XP (e.g., Norton System Works 2002). [also Word 2000] After the Easy CD Creator is installed, then just delete the c:TEMPINSTALL directory. I found this info from a posting at Annoyances.org from a Mr. R.H
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