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I was referring to the topic title.

It isn't.

ESET has detected OpenCandy as a potentially unwanted program for ages. OpenCandy is just an advertising platform. If you don't opt out of the 3rd party program offers it can display during the installation of ImgBurn, you may end up with something you didn't want. There are loads of programs being offered by OpenCandy, some will undoubtedly be more 'unwanted' than others. In a perfect world, ESET etc. would just be blocking the bad 3rd party apps and leave the advertising platform (OpenCandy) alone. It's a bit like blocking all websites that use Google AdSense. There's nothing wrong with the validation email, your email client must have messed it up. You're obviously well aware of OpenCandy by now and know that the installer wizard will contain a screen or two offering you other programs. I'm sure you're capable of letting the current release download and just opt out of anything that doesn't interest you.

Pressing Enter invokes whatever the default button is - and that should be glowing blue or similar. As the program is basically prompting you because you failed to enter one properly in the program, I expect the cancel button is the default one so the volume label remains blank.

I doubt anything opencandy offers you is actually a virus, that would be bad for business and opencandy comes from a legit company. Some AV software may flag certain things, but AV software tries to catch so much more than 'real' viruses these days. Whilst browser toolbars etc can be annoying to some people, they aren't what I'd class as real virus. They'd be things that allow people to remotely hack into your machine, capture passwords, card details and basically everything you're typing to gain access to accounts etc. Maybe I'm just a bit old school like that. A 'potentially unwanted program' that's 'optional' (meaning you're in control of it being installed) isn't something that phases me. Opt out if you don't want it... Job done.

What sort of messages? (Semi) funny quotes from TV shows / films? If so, yes, it's normal. You can turn them off in the Settings on the 'General' tab if you so wish. "Don't Show Status Bar Messages"

I've just set the 'DoubleBuffered' property for the TListBox to true and it's much better now.

Learn what 'PUP.Optional' actually means.

ImgBurn doesn't have any such option. If you'd read the page properly, I'm sure you'd have seen it was offering you a 3rd party program (that's what the OpenCandy platform does) and you picked to do an 'express install' of that 3rd party app.

What did you install? I'm as honest about things as I can be. I have no idea what you're talking about and I very much doubt OpenCandy would be offering you something that stops your machine from booting... how would that help anyone?!

That error (or lack or real error) is usually caused by the driver for the controller the drive is attached to. Right click the drive drop down selection box when you're in 'Write' mode and click 'Family Tree'. Close the prompt and then copy + paste everything from the Log window.

Go into Write mode or whatever... ensure you've selected the right drive and then do... Tools -> Drive -> Close Track/Session/Disc That's all you can do in ImgBurn.

Usually when this happens, it's either the drivers for your SATA controller or the drive is having problems with the discs. http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=8000

You don't (can't) do anything with the layer break on BD discs and there's no difference in what ends up on the disc if you burn files directly to it, or wrap them up in an ISO first and then burn it.

I guess the ImgBurn step is normally done for you by a 3rd party program? There's a BD Video guide in the Guides forum.

Because it reads from the middle to the outer edge and then the outer edge to the middle. Assuming the disc is always spinning at a constant speed, the transfer rate increases as you go from the middle of the disc to the outer edge of the disc - the opposite is therefore true when going from the outer edge to the middle.

Rather than clicking the 'write files/folders to disc' button on the initial screen, use the 'create image file from files/folders' one. Or just change the 'Output' to 'Image File' in the menu at the top.

Sorry, I've no idea what's going on there. It's much easier to troubleshoot these things if you make an image rather than burning files on the fly. I don't know how it's possible to have so many miscompares unless the files on the hdd have changed between burning / verification, you've got serious corruption in memory/on the sata bus, or something is modifying the data read from the drive on the fly (AnyDVD type program).

It sounds like you have something else wrong if your entire machine is freezing. Maybe you could gain access to them by booting into safe mode? (Google will tell you how to do that if you don't know) I certainly wouldn't be writing them off just yet, but it depends on how much time you're willing to spend getting to the root of the problem. The commands used to format discs are detailed in the MMC specs. ImgBurn will only be using the same one (or slight variation so it formats fully/properly) that the other programs will be using. ImgBurn submits the command to the drive and the drive then goes off and does all the work. ImgBurn just sits there waiting for it to finish. It's only back in control when it starts to 'zero' the sectors on the BD-RE disc (basically just writing a bunch of zeros to them all). If you want ImgBurn to behave more like other programs and just do a quick and dirty format, disable the 'Prefer Format With Full Certification' and 'Prefer Properly Formatted Discs' options on the 'Write' tab in the 'Settings'.

You can format quickly or you can format properly. ImgBurn defaults to doing it properly. When you say your PC crashes, what exactly do you mean? Blue screen of death? You can't ruin a BD-RE disc (unless your drive seriously messed it up), just format it again. It would be useful to see a log file of you formatting / writing one of the discs. Even just seeing the disc info from the box on the right would help. Maybe that info from one of your old discs and again from your new ones so I can see what the MID changed to. MIDs are not something software has to worry about. Knowing how to burn a specific disc is the job of the drive's firmware/chipset and nothing to do with software.

Post the log(s) please.

You should do the firmware update first, it's where a fix to this problem would have to come from. The 'Write Speed' option is there on the page where you select your ISO and click the big 'Write' button. You can't miss it if you look for it. There's some issue with your current drive/firmware/media combo so one or more of those needs to be changed in order to get things working as they should do.

That appears to be a PayPal bug. I'd expect the list of possible options in the 'County' field to change when I go between say 'United Kingdom' and 'United States', but it doesn't. Until they fix the bug, a workaround would be to create an actual PayPal account at http://www.paypal.com/ and then just enter your login / password on the donation screen. I don't know why your email would fail to be delivered - assuming you were sending it to a valid address!

Can I assume the disc doesn't work... or at least not in your burner? Try updating the firmware on your drive. http://www.firmwarehq.com/Samsung/SE-208AB/files.html Try burning at 4x if 'MAX' (8x) doesn't work. Try with some other (better) blank discs.

Sorry, I have no control over that one, it's actually a bug in my development environment. Chances are, your disc is fine. The bug usually occurs between the write and verify phases.