Hi,
While I was basically doing non-stop video work, I had the machine's screen saver and power saving settings disabled and ImgBurn worked fine.
Lately I've been having problems with every single disc I tried to burn. Around 20-odd% and say 10 - 20 minutes into the disc, ImgBurn's counters would stop. The log would show that the the Abort button is acknowledged, but ImgBurn wouldn't go into a state where it becomes controllable for exiting or whatever. Once I open Task Manager to end ImgBurn that way, eventually every other process including the shell would hang in such a way that the machine can't be shut down anymore, but has to be turned off.
Thinking back about what might have changed, I suspected that this behaviour started when I re-enabled screen saver and power saving settings.
I have since disabled screen saver and power saving settings again, and so far all is well with ImgBurn and I.
The machine is a Dell Latitude D810 with Windows XP SP3, I'm using ImgBurn 2.5.0.0 and the burner is a USB-connected HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4120B. All hardware has the most recent firmware.
ImgBurn is not set to prevent the screen saver, but is set to prevent the machine entering stand by.
The currently configured screen saver is Blank screen, and when power saving settings are enabled, monitor off, hard disc off, standby and hibernate are all configured for various intervals in that sequence.
The crucial question is: at which interval did ImgBurn stop processing? Unfortunately I cannot answer that. At the time I experienced the problems I did not suspect an association with screen saver and/or power saving activation and did not take careful note of how long the machine had been without interaction.
However, I *think* it was around the time of hard disc off. In case it makes any difference, ImgBurn is installed to the internal system disc, and the DVD source is on an external USB disc.
As much as I'd like to help by narrowing down the specific power saving setting that's associated with this behaviour, I'm afraid that would be too expensive! I've already lost 6 Double Layer discs because of this and have nothing smaller at hand to do tests with.
Hope this helps!