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Because it's old and security tools add special exceptions for known programs (specific versions of programs). I haven't changed anything to do with saving the settings and I've seen this same issue with previous releases - it's just something else installed on your PC that's causing the problem. You can de/un-upx the EXE and the problem will probably go away.

Does it run in safe mode? It must be something running on your PC that's blocking access to it.

Like the one you posted earlier, but in its native 16x16 format (the one you see when Explorer is set to 'Details' view), it doesn't look quite as nice.

Well, I say iTunes, it's used by loads of programs that have some sort of burning feature in them - but iTunes is probably the most common one (that I know of). Maybe I did fix something in 2.5.8.0?!

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Those options are nothing to do with which mode you're in. They'll just send the appropriate command to tell the drive to read at that speed. If you then do a simple file copy from disc to hdd in explorer, the drive should be reading at 8x (spinning at a speed giving an 8x transfer rate). Not all drives honour the chosen read speed.

Copy + paste everything from the Log window please rather than posting a screenshot.

It's just down to how the drive works internally and is nothing to worry about. Some sit on 50% all the time.

The Px stuff is used by iTunes. I've no idea why 2.5.7.0 didn't list it, I don't recall fixing anything in that area. As 2.5.8.0 is clearly showing it, maybe check again with 2.5.7.0 - you could have just missed it being added to your system?

From the OpenCandy FAQ... (So you don't even need to do a slient install, you can do a 'no candy' install) How do I avoid OpenCandy offers?Simply decline any OpenCandy recommendation(s), and OpenCandy will disable and delete itself when the main installer you are running completes. If any offer does install without your consent, this is likely from some other 3rd party and is not an OpenCandy offer. It is a violation of our network Policies. Please notify us of the app you were installing and the offer which was installed and we will take steps to remedy the situation or terminate relations with that software developer. For those of you still unconvinced, try any of these steps: Beginner: disconnect your internet connection (beware some software needs the internet to complete its install) Intermediate: run the OpenCandy powered installer from the command-line with /NOCANDY Advanced: add a domain block in your firewall for *.opencandy.com

As mentioned before, the offer you get may not be the same as what others get. When I just installed it in a virtual environment, I was offered the 'Amazon Toolbar' rather than the 'Entrusted Toolbar'. Offer screens for each advertiser look different. The offer screen for the Amazon one is much clearer looking. There is of course nothing to say you'll be offered a Toolbar type product at all and telling people to make sure they select a custom install rather than express is useless because many will never even get those options (just as I didn't). That was an express or custom install of the 'Entrusted Toolbar' and nothing to do with an express or custom install of ImgBurn itself. You just need to differentiate between ImgBurn installation screens and product offer screens (ImgBurn's come first).

I looked at both. The 16x16 one isn't that great.

What you may or may not get offered when installing the application has absolutely nothing to do with ImgBurn itself. If it's closing ok in safe mode it means there's something else on your PC that's interfering with what ImgBurn is trying to do (i.e. save its settings). I seem to recall it's actually down to antivirus programs running on the PC. Something about them being over aggressive with UPX compressed EXE files means the program can only write 1 registry entry per second or something - and ImgBurn writes loads of them. Try adding an exception for the exe.

Try running it in safe mode and see if you have the same problem. I can't look into a problem I can't reproduce and I've never had this problem.

No. The installer will stay as it is for now. This new (random) offering isn't really any different to the old fixed Ask.com toolbar one. Just opt out and move on, it's only a big deal if you let it become one. Personally, I'm just used to this kind of thing now as most free apps come bundled with some offering or other - it doesn't bother me in the slightest. You install an application once, you use it x number of times. The actual ImgBurn program itself is just as it has always been.

Ok, now I see. Thanks. That offer page is very clean looking, it would be very easy to not even realise it was an offer at all. The offers I saw during testing were big bold / obvious things. I'm also a little put off by the 'Recommended by ImgBurn' bit. Whilst OpenCandy wouldn't offer any malicious software, I haven't personally looked at / tested / recommended anything.

Technically, it isn't ImgBurn that's installing it, it's you - like you said, you got click-happy. Rather than having a single static page in the installer that always offers the Ask.com toolbar, the OpenCandy platform dynamically adds a page with a random offer from a list of advertisers that they have in their network (like Google serving up adverts from various places when you visit websites). I never know what you're going to be offered or anything (including the design / look of the offer page) and in theory it could change each time you run the installer. Right this second, I have no idea what this 'express' install option is you're talking about. http://www.opencandy.com/

That's not something ImgBurn or the installer does. OpenCandy handles the 'in setup' product offering stuff (replacing the old bundled Ask.com toolbar offer). AFAIK, you just say 'No' to them - the same way you've always done.