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Summary: Messed up my Window 2000 like no other software
Review: I purchased the Plextor PX-708A top of the line DVD/CD burner and the software that came with it was Roxio Easy CD & DVD Creator. Well let me tell you it gave me the blue screen of POWER FAILURE Error and after that whenever I tried to shut down my computer it would just restart. I didn't realize this was causing the problem and I thought the new burner needed a better system so I built a new custom sytem getting the best montherboard ASUS has to offer P4 plus 1 Gig of memory well after reinstalling everything guess what the same problem happened that's when I started researching online and found that ROXIO sucks, they need to test the product before sending to the market. I had to reinstall Window 2000 again and the CD with Roxio will never go in my computer again. Now my computer works fine. I went out and purchases NERO 6 Ultra Edition, it works much better but you need to download the patches first. Both of these products try to offer to much other crap they need to get the software for burning down solid before adding on other crap and make sure they test it.
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Summary: DVD Copy corrupts Hard disk lost OS
Review: After fighting the install then customer support I managed to get 6.0 install on XP so I wanted to try my 'NEW' DVD burner. I created a DVD +R and a DVD +RW without a problem but when I told Roxio 6.0 to copy a Data DVD it failed telling me that it could not write to the +RW device. I put a +R disk in and then after another 10 minutes it told me it could not Write to the +R device. I quit trying and sent Roxio the error messages, latter on I rebooted the workstation and then the problems started. Seems 6.0 creates temp files that cross link the file allocation maps and hose your hard drive. I tried running the CHKDSK utility but the damage was to much, FDISK and reload the OS was the fix. I'm thinking a Class Action would be a means to teach Roxio that they can't use the paying public as their private beta test site.
I just purchased Nero, installed it and copied a 3.3GB DVD to a used +RW, it ask me if I wanted to erase the DVD then did without a problem then burned the DVD in 24 minutes (2.4x) - From the time I installed to the completed burn was 35 minutes, it's been two weeks with Roxio and I still can't burn a copy of a DVD. (nor do I want to try it!)
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Summary: Take a good thing and mess it up!
Review: CD Creator has been around for years and the product has always been my first choice for CD burning. That was until version 6! This product has been taken to a new level that makes it unfriendly and almost unusable. Simply put, get your hands on a copy of Platinum 5 which runs great on XP and that's all the CV burning software you'll ever need.
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Summary: not hat bad
Review: I read the previous reviews, bought a five dollar , new version off ebay to see if it would load and work. (that version does not burn dvd).
Have a new sony computer, xp, dvd- and+ burner.
program works fine. not as sophisticated as I need, but works just great. only one freeze up in four hours of hard editing.
Would continue to use it if the text editor in stroy line were more useable. will try pinnacle next.
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Summary: 4 Hour nightmare
Review: I purchased a DVD+R/W and it came with Nero, having EZCD Creator 5 already installed I wanted to upgrade to the DVD version, mistake. The software detects the old version and instructs you to uninstall Version 5 first then reboot and start again. Did that then watched as 480MB of 'Stuff' was installed, they didn't give me a chance to pick what I wanted, they dumped everything. After they rebooted my system twice I discovered Roxio ICON's on everything. I tried the software just to find out that the COPY CD function did not work anymore, I wrote it up and e-mailed my issues to Roxio support. The next day I was instructed to 1. Scan my PC for a VIRUS 2. Register the program DLL's with REGSERV32 3. Re-install the software AFTER I downloaded and run a program to remove the registry entries from Roxio 5 and now 6. Did all that and then I did a custom install and ONLY selected the DVD/CD burning software and now I can burn and copy a CD/DVD. Because of the installation issues I would not tell anyone to purchase this product, I like my friends.
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Summary: Bombs Away!
Review: After re-installing Easy CD Creator 5.3.4, which was bundled with my new tower from Dell (it didn't work when I tried it - therefore the re-install), on reboot the computer crashed and I got the black screen of death. The XP recovery disc enabled me to get back up and running thanks to help from a friend. I then tried to re-install, omitting Direct cd which I was told was the problem, and the install hung. After getting unhung I went to the Roxio web site and downloaded a patch. The patch did about as much good as hitting my computer with a shovel. My advice - if Roxio has stock, don't buy it. These guys can't possibly stay in business much longer. What a bomb!
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Summary: You'll be sorry!!
Review: What the box doesn't tell you is that your drive has to be supported for the software to work. My drive was not. Installation was a total disaster. A virus would not have done as much damage. The promised support was nonexistant.
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Summary: Disastrous data loss in backup
Review: I used this software to backup my data onto a DVD+R 4X disk. I was stunned to find that although the size of the created DVD looked about close to the original data, many files were simply gone: their names were listed but their size were all 0kb. I strongly urge you not to use this useless junk.
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Summary: Would have rated this 0 stars if possible.
Review: Warning: Do not install this product on your computer! (More generally, if you have any software by Roxio installed, and if it works, then do not try to upgrade.) You have been warned! In my case the end result of installing this software (exactly according to the instructions) was the blue screen of death, and a complete reinstall of windows was necessary. Search the web for more information. If you've already bought this product try to get your money back.
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Summary: Possibly the "buggiest" software I have ever had to use
Review: Roxio's so-called "Easy CD Creator" is anything but. It is perhaps the "buggiest" software I have ever used. It crashed my Windows XP system immediately upon installation. Even after a series of patches were downloaded to allegedly fix the problems, the software has continued to behave in a quirky and thoroughly unreliably manner. For example, lately it has begun refusing to burn more than half a CD. In sum, nothing but one frustration after another.
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