On 29 Jul 2005 at 9:15, Eric Dannewitz wrote: > Exactly. I think the person who originally said it was full of it. > Just because they see all the problems, doesn't mean that everything > is "problematic". Whatever. I've yet to have any issues with CD/DVD > drives and Windows XP.
Um, I support PC users for a living. I see a *lot* more PCs than any of you who aren't doing the same thing will do, of different makes, models and levels of performance. There are fundamental problems in WinXP's optical drive support that make WinXP different from previous versions of Windows. There are Microsoft Knowledge Base articles documenting many of these problems. If you use default setups and acquiesce to WinXP's autocratic approach to how it thinks you should use your optical drives, you are unlikely to encounter any problems. If, on the other hand, you try to use methods with the optical drive that have worked for several past versions of Windows (why would you want to change your backup methods when you simply got a new computer?), you may very well encounter major problems that lead to a locked up PC that won't shut down, that corrupts CD-R media and that can lead to blue screens crashes of WinXP. And you may not encounter these issues. But the problems are still there, and they make me cautious in advising anyone that going out and buying an add-in DVD drive for a WinXP machine is going to be 100% safe and easy and successful. It may very well come off without a hitch, but if not, it could be quite problematic. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
