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  1. Now the truth comes out...it isn't a size problem it is a how do I copy the movie I didn't buy problem. One of these days I'm going to visit a car forum and ask how to make my key fit into a Hummer and let them all give me advise on graphite to help it go in, making sure it isn't broke and shaving loose edges off then say, oh by the way it isn't my hummer...
  2. Google probably also gave him his "key" too...
  3. I know exactly what the problem is...see the people that make the games tend to like to get paid, so when people choose not to pay and download the game, they choose to not let you play it. Its all about freedom and equal rights ya know...you are free to pirate software while they are free to not let it work.
  4. Interesting...I wonder why it wasted time and space copying unchanged folder/files? I could see maybe a folder if only one file was changed, but just for the heck of it would be a waste. Kind of good to know I guess that some burning apps consider multi-session different. I forgot all about IsoBuster type stuff to extract old files...in just Explorer, a corrupt last burn would make the disc useless though.
  5. Been forever since I've used Multi-Session, but aren't they somewhat additive? I don't recall it being like the old stuff is totally wasted and all is wrote over again. I think it is just a TOC thing and if the old data is valid then the newly wrote TOC points to it and if deleted it still is on the disc, just not pointed to, etc. Any new data is wrote to the new session and pointed to by the new TOC as well. The final copy if the most recent TOC and used data is copied would be smaller since unused data on the disc isn't copied when just reading what is there now. Mostly only really smaller by how many deleted items there are. TOC additions shouldn't add too much. Although to copy a disc you sometimes want bit by bit. I think another reason he may be keeping away from the Copy Disc mentality is to keep to the name of the product and keep from being recognized as just a disc copier, etc for legal reasons. One big disadvantage of Multi-Session was the way it worked like above in that if anything happened on the most recent session the old data was useless now since the TOC errored out and doesn't point to it. So it is better to just put as much as you can to disc to have a reliable backup.
  6. Most 1-to-1/On-the-Fly apps only do what ImgBurn does anyway- Make an image, Burn the image, Keep or Delete the image. I never burn disc to disc. Too many issues can come up. Nero has the option for it to be without the middle image, but I only had to use it once to know I don't want it. Same thing with copying to more than one disc. It may be a few seconds/minutes slower going to image, but it is much more reliable. In some cases all the swapping back and forth and slowdowns to do On-the-Fly or multi-disc burns is actually slower than just writting the image at full speed to HDD and burning from it at the full speed. Not as much cache issues buring from image either as from disc and/or flat files.
  7. Ok...wasn't aware there was the default/fixed 2sec gap at the start. I'm not seeing it though. My different players all see Pre-Gap different though. On my PC it seems to add the 2sec onto the end of the songs making them appear 2sec longer than they are. My Car and Portable CD Players all show them as negative time right before the next song (It counts down like -2, -1, 0...at which point the track plays) [sometimes it counts down from 3 though, so it may not be an exact frame count or something]. Looping or Random Play would be about the only areas where it would apply. I usually run all the Wave files for my audio through a Wave Editor to trim all silence off and normalize/max volume without distortion all songs. So, without gaps they can play continuous if I wanted, or it could create undesired effects without all Pre Gaps. Now, this default Pre-Gap, your reply seems to imply that it is there and any additional would make it more...so, on my last project I had a 2 sec Gap on the first track, so should have at least 2 if not 4 sec of Gap right? When played in my car where it would count down on Gap I have no countdown/delay on playback. When it loops it sets at Track 1 0:00 for 1-2sec (Most likely while the laser moves back to the start), but that is all the delay there is.
  8. Wherever you have openings that ports need to come out you pop those out, there will most likely be a lot of thin lines bent at an angle too that don't really block ports. They are kinda springy to keep the plate in place and prevent popping out and are a Ground for the ports to the case. You can most likely pitch the one that came with the case, all motherboards have their own...use it.
  9. Does it actually do a bit by bit, or just compare MD5's at the end? I'd think to calculate the MD5 it has to read bit by bit, so is the MD5 just to verify the verify? While MD5 is/was a standard, there are cases where it isn't 100%...in this case it probably wouldn't matter much, especially if it is just a 2nd/Secondary check. That's about the only thing I'd need clarified...Test and Verify have been around for some time now and all good burning apps have them. Verify being the newest. I know Test has been around forever- Saved me many coasters back in the days of wearing our my first 2X Sony burner that had that stupid cartridge I had to put all my discs in and then slide it in. I guess they were meant to protect the disc, but unless every disc was sold in one instead of jewel cases it kind of defeated the purpose. It amazes me too that like 1 in 5 got Buffer Underrun on a 2x Burner!
  10. Ok, I see this now. Text is copied to all, but the Pre-Gap seems to miss the first track (I guess I can live with that since it does all the rest...unless it is easy enough for a "Silent Update"). I was making the setting then clicking the first track and didn't see anything, so thought it did nothing. The Text works on all tracks though, so that is a big plus for my next project. So, how do we make use of the CUE files for other things? Or is it only Audio as it is right now? I did notice the "Label" text seemed to grab the main disc text or the first track, so figured it was just made up and used to help identify it.
  11. Just curious, but if he says it works with the previous version and he was willing to go back to the previous then seeing the post with just a new preview exe got me thinking...why not go back to the previous and grab that previewer and then install the new ImgBurn and copy the old Previewer over the new? Better than losing all the fixes and enhancements of the whole app isn't it? I'm amazed that the previewer works as good as it does, much better than the useless/buggy thing in DVDFab...it doesn't even have sound and sometimes has issues stopping! Nero's has sound, but sometimes the sound doesn't work right either. That it even shows video I'm happy with. The whole point is to just see where it is that you are putting the break. If I want to watch the video I use PowerDVD.
  12. Made my first Audio CD with ImgBurn yesterday. Pretty good options...plus my 24 songs using all but the last 30sec of CD actually worked where the same files burned with Nero had a bad Track 24. A couple things I noticed were- The CD Text is available on everything including Disc and Session, but only saves in Disc and Track. Pre-Gap is also available with Session, but not saved. When I first saw this I was thinking setting the Pre-Gap at session level made that the default for all Tracks...which would be nice, perhaps shortening seconds to sec or something and adding a Default Option Button which is selected by default on all and uses the Session Gap. Multi-Selection of tracks would be nice too which would allow things like setting a whole selection's Pre-Gap or CD Text where things like Artist/Performer would be the same. When burning the Cue the screen also says that the Label will be the text that is assigned to the CD Text of the Disc, but mine was "Unknown"...come to think of it I don't think I've ever seen a Volume Label on Audio CDs. I'll have to check out the disc somehow to see if the CD Text got saved since my car didn't show it and I thought it would since it shows MP3/WMA CD Text. I'm still trying to figure out the purpose for adding multiple sessions. On Audio CDs I could see adding another session for data files for a hybrid disc, but other than that I've only used sessions in multi-session discs that before finalizing allowed me to add more files, etc. But, since right now there is no editing an existing I'm guessing that is for the future...but I may be missing another reason for other sessions. All together though I got a working Audio CD and even with missing speed-ups it got done quicker than Nero.
  13. What value is in your ISOBUILD_MRUSourceFolder and ISOBUILD_RecentFiles_Source values in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ImgBurn? When the tree is opened it navigates to the value passed to it by the API call. If this location isn't there or is hard to get to it may take a while. Closing ImgBurn with a hung Windows Common Dialog will keep the thread that called it open as well. There are styles that can specify no network drives, removable media, etc too, but that would limit ImgBurn functionality...might be a good option though for people that never use network drives/shares...and since the removable media is usually in a locked state during a lot of operations in ImgBurn, trying to Browse for Folder to a drive that is locked, or sometimes even showing it in the panel of Browse For Folder may hang it.
  14. Well, there was a really smart guy that posted a reply with a board having 2 PATA slots 2 days before you ordered... hehehe
  15. Heard of Torrents, like the general idea...hate the software that you have to use for them. Back when I first switched over to Firefox I could have sworn I heard some kind of comments about it supporting them and then never saw much. Many Newsreaders have good support for various protocols and encoding, although I haven't been on the news boards since I lived up in WI...not very good support here in MO as they tend to be hacker/pirate oriented and 90% of WI seemed to be the various foreign populations that enjoyed hacking/pirating, so the networks there are much better (although more often hacked). Unfortunately I have yet to see many File Sharing and/or Torrent apps that aren't some type of virus themselves. I've cleaned tons of PCs and the main cause of the infestations are usually some type of file sharing. One PC I was on had some popular one like limewire or something and it attached itself to every explorer, Yahoo Im, AOL IM, and various other windows and processes. It was doing all kinds of stuff unknown to the user and many AV programs...so needless to say I don't use them much. Not to mention the people "seeding" them is overrun by the people leaching off of them.
  16. Haven't used TYs yet, although I intend to at some point. All the Verbatims I get from Best Buy seem to be scuffed like all the CDs rubbed together. I've had really good luck with TDK though. So, personally I'd try TY or TDK. TY usually come in a pretty big bulk though, so I'd think they have a chance of rubbing too, although friends that use them say they are packaged really well and don't even turn to allow rubbing.
  17. 289 Smileys, what more could a guy want... As soon as I get all my stuff together and get a real site I need to post up some of my stuff I've made in my Slipstream Windows Discs. I have 3 different DVDs (XP, XP64, 2003) that install pretty much anything needed for Windows. Took some time building up everything to install and gathering all the files and the order to do everything. The reg tweaks alone are 87KB...and that is optimized to be only the keys/values needed without anything extra and even include Office Tweaks/Settings. And almost 3GB of install files that install Office (2003 or 2007), Visio 2003, DirectX, FireFox, Thunderbird, Java (Both Sun and the last version of MS JAVA that I extracted and repackaged to install on any OS unblocked), Flash Players, Royale Theme, Vista Screen Savers for XP, then it has SP2 Slipstreamed and the 108MB of patches since SP2 that install during setup...until the final SP3 gets out (Hopefully end of the month). Wouldn't be posting the Office stuff though, people would have to use their own. Lots of work though and even a custom install app I made for it all that runs during setup. Used many DVD RWs and Cheap DVD-Rs to make it perfect. The reg imports work different on the two XP discs as compared to 2003 too. For some reason the XP flavors overide any user settings the first time a user logs on, while 2003 keeps them as Default...so on the XP flavors I have to apply them during setup and on the first login to make them stick for all users...
  18. Ok...that one is kinda cute, I could allow that. Most people may not get my ref unless they have used Fab for some time. Nice job on the guides BTW. Didn't notice much till recently, but they took some time and are very detailed.
  19. PS, nice sites Matt. Yeah, I went by "stripping off the rest of the URL" as the home page said. Your smiley page is pretty cool. Got those saved in a zip somewhere? Most of those are hilarious.
  20. Good board, I was looking at that one myself along with the IX38 Quad GT and a couple MSI boards- P35, Diamond, and P7N SLI...I kinda liked this one since it had 2 PATA and I could make use of all my old stuff from the Athlon system. I have yet to see much spectacular results on SATA...maybe at most twice as fast in bursts, but overall it is about the same.
  21. Yeah, I had just bought the full set of the old ones when the HD came out. They have the updated stills and planet flyins that the Sci-Fi channels and such have been playing. I guess I'll have to get the HD now...argh! Its still nice seeing the old stuff though and how they did everything with so little money. On one of the extras it said each show had the budget of one dinner on the set of STNG...
  22. Doesn't matter to me as long as you don't change to a stupid monkey with a crown...hehehe I'd imagine it would have to be 2K+ for it to work. About the only thing before that would have been a null brush, which usually can do the same thing since most often the area is only a transparent segment of what was there at the time of loading...move something under it and it doesn't reflect it in the transparent section, etc...although now that I try it the thing goes away to quick or gets covered up, so I guess it wouldn't matter either way as it isn't topmost...
  23. Interesting, I'll have to remember that if I ever have any issues with mine. I had an issue with a disc once I never could figure out. It would get right past the Press a Key to Boot from CD message still in the Black screens when it is checking Hardware and either just sit there or beep and go nuts. Had to grab a friends disc and use it. Weird thing is I did a file compare and everything matched??? Maybe it was this very filename case issue. XP has a habit of changing name case. There is a key in the registry too that tweaks it. Also, since SysInternals is now M$...you have Billy under your belt! :& I have all their versions right before the switch just to not have to deal with the stupid new license screens.
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    They still have these items up today??? If they aren't going to sell them they shouldn't taunt us... I want the Beta to HD DVD!
  25. My first piece of advice is wait a month or so. Lots of new 45nm Intel chips keep coming out. I jumped on board at the E8400 level and now there are a lot more. Not that I regret getting mine...I love the CPU and needed it at the time (Plus it is a lot faster than my old AMD Athlon 64bit), but I too need to build another soon and will be waiting a little to see what new Quads come. I see 2 so far, one has low cache the other is ok...
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