direct cd with windows xp home edition 1

[annestahl]

Hi all,
does anyone know about this 'problem' . I just got a new pc with xp home and wanted to install my external cd burner software, and got a pop up saying that direct cd cannot run on xp that there are known bugs. I tried to go to the roxio site to get an update of the software, but they seem to only have something called Easy CD and it's not free...
Any ideas? Do I need to use Direct CD or can I get another program? The burner is a hp 8200 series, and I hate the software anyway. What alternatives are there? I'd really like something that allows data and music and to pre'view' the music and to print a sleeve. Neither of which direct cd does. Nag Nag.
thanks all,
Anne

 

[SESaskDFC]

Howdy:

Try Nero.. compatible with XP..

Murray

 

[Mulga]

Direct CD is only for packet burning, that is using a CD- RW like a floppy disc. You need a full burning program, either CD Easy Creator from Roxio or Nero from Ahead Software. Note that packet burning under Win XP, either with the updated Direct CD or Nero's verion InCD is very flaky in my experience and should be avoided. Help us to help you, please post back and tell us if this helped.

All things are possible except skiing through a revolving door.

 

[KimLeece]

I haven't used it but you can burn CD's directly from XP using Media Player. I don't know if it will let you burn anything except music and video though from there. You could probably do this from from Windows Explorer though - the built in program is actually a version of Roxio Easy CD but without some of the capabilities. I do know that if you want to use the Windows XP based software you have to enable the burner from its properties box - if you want to use a third party program you have to make sure that it is disabled or it will not work!

Kim Leece.

 

[Mulga]

You can indeed burn all types of files direct from Windows, not just multimedia which you do from Media Player, you can burn direct from Windows Explorer for other file types. However as Kim says it has limited capabilities, no label making etc and it is slower than the fully featured apps. Help us to help you, please post back and tell us if this helped.

All things are possible except skiing through a revolving door.