What would stop vista burning cds?
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| Actually make that DVDRs My mum bought a new PC recently with Vista.H.Prem on it. It says "application not found" when she clicks on a blank disk. When she does it through the burning software it says "dvd burner not found". Have talked her through the usual stuff and remove the hw and force p&p etc and all results -sound- fine. It is using the manufacturer's image and is a Toshiba something-or-other "good deal" from morrisons. No joy still same problem. Problem for me, im in sweden, she is in UK. She is a total noobtard who cannot do anything without stressing max. WTF cant vista burn DVDs or something? Last time i checked it could. She -was- on Ubuntu with her old PC that i installed last time i was in UK and have had almost 2 years of peace and quiet. Now my phone is ringing off the damn hook. Anyone know of any wierd known issues or anything i have not thought of? |
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| That sounds familiar. Is she trying to make a set of recovery CDs? Because my Compaq laptop did precisely the same thing - denied all knowledge of a CD/DVD burner being connected, even though it was. Compaq's best solution was to flog me a set of CDs for another £15. WTF? I reinstalled from my Vista DVD and used the licence key that came with the computer. Everything worked great after that. Companies should be banned from selling computers that don't have a genuine OS CD included. |
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| no just trying to burn some photos.... faaazands of em. Companies should be banned from selling computers that don't have a genuine OS CD included. 110% agree "mal" shovelware is the devil.I think ts is prolly the case but i think she needs to buy a ram stick or two instead. |
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| I had these problems too so i used a free dvd burner from downloads.com and it worked even though built-ins would not... go figure |
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| Anyone got the name of a reliable shovel-free burning suite for windows (It has to be nice and easy for her to use with me on the phone) |
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| Anyone got the name of a reliable shovel-free burning suite for windows (It has to be nice and easy for her to use with me on the phone) This one is probably the nicest one you'll find: http://cdburnerxp.se/help/ Supposedly it's compatible with Vista as well. |
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| Here`s a good list of the best freeware tools available, http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-cd-dvd-burning-software.htm They are all pretty decent alternatives. Jason. |
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| @ D4NM4N You don't have somit like DAEMON Tools running with emulation / any other sort of virtual CD/DVD drive software??? I had the same probs running DAEMON Tools, Vista would not detect my DVD drive, until i turned the emulation off in DAEMON Tools. Destroyer :) |
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| Its not my PC, its in england, i am in sweden. Problem: Anything i do has to be by phone with the nboobiest of noobs at the helm. For some reason Home premium does not seem to have remote desktop of any sort. :O |
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| Tried RealVNC? |
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| Tried RealVNC? Over the internet? Yuck.. Better with Hamachi and Remote Desktop. |
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| i might try installing logmein or something. |
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| Teamviewer is a very good remote system without any troubles to start. CDBurnerXP is indeed a good free option as well, as I'm using it to burn iso's under Vista sometimes. |
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| Better with Hamachi and Remote Desktop. Remote Desktop is all well and good but I don't see how a Japanese virtual pet is going to help him.*runs away* |
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| @GFK Hamachi is a tool to create a local network over internet, free for private use. You are reffering to Tamagotchi i bet. |
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| http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=opera&rls=en&hs=UMv&q=vista+dvd+burner+not+found&revid=1498330127&ei=hYCGSoqxO4aPtgeqmNjnDA&sa=X&oi=revisions_inline&resnum=0&ct=broad-revision&cd=3 http://www.microsoft.com/windows/compatibility |
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