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Yet... Nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more. A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat! This feature along with the ability to create ISO from unprotected CD/DVD and the ability to copy unprotected CD's/DVD's would mean I could elope to Las Vegas with IB, get married at a drive-through by Elvis, and burn to our hearts content, never to be seen again.

lol i ended up editing the registry, enabling the real administrator account and then logging in as that! Having to click 'yes' to everything I tried to do was driving me nuts too! On the topic of Vista (but off topic from ImgBurn): I still can't get the poxy file sharing to work how I want it though. It's weird that when you install it and create that single admin account, it then uses that for the admin account if you try to access the admin shares (c$, d$ etc). So even when you try to connect to the vista PC using 'Administrator' as the name, it uses the name you created on the Vista box. As I had no use for that account once I'd enabled Administrator, I deleted it. It could just be a generic thing but even when I recreate that account with the same password etc, I'm still denied access to the admin shares. I just wanted to have a single username / password between my machines / virtual machines and let it do pass through authentication so I didn't have to enter names + passwords each time. It works fine between xp / 2003 but vista just won't play nicely My machines aren't in a domain or it would probably work ok. If you have any thoughts on the matter I'd be happy to hear them!

I learned a new trick, YMMV, setup an admin account, install programs, create a new admin account, change original to limited. Enjoy OT: been trying for a year to get certain programs to work this way with WinXP pro so our DJ's wouldn't hose the computer.

javacool's spywareblaster is also a must, imo. It prevents many types of malware from installing themselves in the Registry. (Spybot-SD has a similar featuer in its latest version.) http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/ I also use a mix of free/payware for malware protection. ZoneAlarm Security Suite The anti-viral component is Computer Associates EZ-Trust anti-viral/anti-spyware product. (And CA uses ZA for their firewall.) ZA's a great product, but there have been some problems with version 6.x. The latest update, 6.5 caused me so many problems I had to roll back to 6.1. But it still catches viruses (caught one two days ago in the IE Temp file) and the Fire Wall's still rock solid. To test any firewall, got to http://www.grc.com and click on "Shields Up". It will test all of the IP ports to see if you're firewall's doing it's job. Beware if you're using BlackIce's firewall. They altered their code to cheat the grc test because it had failed so miserably. This is from the site and not my opinion. I've never used any BlackIce products. Ad-Aware (full version) Spybot-SD SpywareBlaster javacool's site also has an older program called MRU-blaster which removes all kinds of records that Windows keeps that most "privacy" programs don't even touch. I very much recommend it. You'll be amazed at just how many different things that XP keeps track of. I also think that a "trace destroyer" is a must. A program like East-Tec Eraser (my personal favorite), Steganos Security Suite (another one of my favs) that erases not internet traces but also the records kept by many types of progs and the OS. East-Tec is great because it has 13 presets for digital "shredding", everything from a simple one-pass overwrite all the way up to Peter Gutmann's 35 pass method that prevents any method, hardware or software from recovering data from a HD. You can also create your own methodologies.

The crowd pulling down Palpatine's statue on Coruscant was a nice touch. As well as the fireworks. On the commentary track (for Jedi) Ben Burtt (editor and sound man) talks about how they hired a fireworks company to create the fireworks for the "special edition". Said it was a blast. They asked the fireworks guys to do whatever they wanted see and, presto, it was done. Tres cool.

You see, Ground, I can turn that one right around on you. Parliament has absolute power over everything and everyone in the UK. Tomorrow, Parliament could decided to have everyone over 6'4" tall thrown into prison and and there's nothing and no one to stop them. The House of Lords, which had the only slight check on Parliament--it could delay enactment of a law for two years--has been gutted by Blair & Co. So I can easily ask you, how can you call your government a "democracy" (in reality both systems are representative democracies, very different than true democracy) when Parliament controls all? The Monarch has zero power; the Queen's rubberstamp approval of the government is no loner required. The Royal Veto of Parliamentary legislation hasn't been used since 1707 under Queen Anne. The House of Lords lost all real power in 1914, when the Commons got Edward VII to threaten to create a shitload of "Liberal" peers to swamp the Conservative majority. The House of Lords folded. But in practice, but Parliament and the Electoral College behave democratically. The Electoral College (more on this below) has never elected someone president who didn't win a majority of the states. We don't want a tyranny of the majority in this country. Just as I suspect y'all don't want 1200 unelected aristocrats having real power to pass laws or stop legislation passed by the Commons. I'm not trying to bust your ball here or criticize England. After all, our bill of Rights is based, to a large degree, on the Bill of Rights which Parliament passed after booting out James II and resplacing him with his daughter (Mary II) and her husband, the Dutch Stadtholder William III. Our revolution is the only conservative revolution in history. It was fought to "restore the rights of Englishmen." When George III & Parliament balked, we sent them packing. Of all the ingredients that go to make up the heritage of the United States, it is the English contribution that is decisive. The Founders--the most brilliant collection of men ever assembled in history--knew better than to trust the mob (sometimes miscalled the "people"). We have what's called the Electoral College. It protects us from a Hitler or a Napoleon. It's a check on the wild passions of the moment that can sometimes animate the mob. And it's a healthy check. And we are NOT an oligarchy. We are run by an aristocracy of lawyers, judges and the Federal bureaucracies. If history teaches us anything it is those that control the functioning of government control everything. Politicians are mere window dressing. Freedom disappears by degrees, one regulation, one court decision, one bureaucreatic ukase at a time. Every year the Federal government adds FIFTEEN THOUSAND PAGES of new laws and regulations to the Federal Register--the official "book" into which a law or reg has to be entered into before it can actually take effect. Ours is a system of checks and balances. It is not that system that fails the people; it is the people that fail the system. The missus is American and has tried to explain this to me on numerous occasions but i just don't get it If your President is not chosen by the people then how can you live in a democracy..?

exactly as grain said the window is SELECT BACKUP TARGET and from the dropdown menu you select create ISO file

When you hit the backup button in Shrink, it pops up another window, which gives you the option of burning, crating an iso, or creating a hard disc folder. Make sure you have it set for create an ISO, remember where it's saving it too, and then you can burn with ImgBurn when it's done.

This will cover making a Single Layer ISO on your Hard Drive. Firstly make sure your Vob, Ifo and Bup files are in a folder called VIDEO_TS Next, open ImgBurn in Build Mode (Click 'Mode' -> 'Build') and switch the Output Mode to Image File (Click 'Output' -> 'Image File'). Click the 'Browse for a folder...' button in the source box, and navigate to the folder where you saved the files. When you have chosen the folder you require you can use the Calculator button to see if it will fit on the disc. At this point go to the 'Options' tab, and ensure ISO9660 + UDF is selected in the 'File System' drop down box. You should also configure the other options as you see them here in the screenshot. Next choose the 'Labels' tab and enter a nice name for your movie in both fields. This will be the 'volume label' of the disc once you've burnt it - it's what will be visible in 'My Computer' when you put the disc in your DVD drive. Now you need to enter the file name for your image file in the 'Destination' box. In this example, we use 'I:\DVD ISO\STAR_WARS_EPISODE_IV.iso'. You can enter it manually or click the 'Browse for a file...' button. When you've done that, press the Build Button. (Highlighted in the red box) You will then see the screen below: Press 'OK' and ImgBurn will start building your ISO. Then just wait a few minutes (system dependent) and your ISO and MDS (NB: MDS file is now optional for single layer discs) will be ready.

This will cover making a Dual Layer ISO on your Hard Drive. Firstly make sure your Vob, Ifo and Bup files are in a folder called VIDEO_TS then open ImgBurn in Build Mode and choose the folder option in the source box, and navigate to the folder you stored the files. When you have chosen the folder you require it should look like the picture above. Then press the Calculator and you will see a similar window to this, where you should choose the layer break. The best option here is the one on the right that says 'No' in the SPLIP column. Then press 'Ok'. The Legend at the bottom also indicates the best choices. At this point go to the options tab, choose ISO9660+UDF Next go to Labels and enter the name of your ISO in both fields. Next go to Advanced -> Media and ensure you have selected the appropriate profiles for the media you're intending to write to. If the estimated size of the image exceeds that specified in the 'Single Layer' -> 'Maximum Sectors' box, the program will know you're building a double layer ISO and configure itself accordingly. This is where the 'Double Layer' profile then comes in. If you do not select the correct profile you may have problems with the layer break when you burn the ISO file. Next choose your destination, and press the Build Button (Highlighted in the red box). The Layer Break choice window will appear again at this point. Normally you shouldn't worry about ticking the 'Don't update IFO/BUP files' box, and you should definintely not tick it unless you have prepared IFO's in advance containing layer break info. Press 'Ok'. You will then see this window. Press 'Ok' and the programme will start building. Then just wait a few minutes (system dependent) and your ISO and MDS will be ready. Remember to choose the MDS file when you eventually burn this ISO as it contains the layer break information.

That would be telling.... Thanks for the ini file feature LUK! That was fast work. Will it be possible to create an empty file called [appname].ini in the exe's folder, which is then populated by ImgBurn on exit with all supported parameters ? Re. adding Copies to the main window, I would still like to see this feature added in a future version, although it's certainly not an urgent feature request by any stretch of the imagination. I agree that the main window should be kept simplistic for ease of use, but feel that burning multiple copies of a single disc is quite a common feature (I generally burn at least 2 copies on 2 different types of disc of any data that is half-way important). I just don't like having to do too many clicks every time I burn a disc. Call me lazy but..... BTW, I'm really looking forward to IB version 2!

Currently, ImgBurn can only burn ISO files to disc (CD or DVD). An ISO file is an exact copy/image of a disc containing all the relevant info and data. Just follow the advice offered by Kenadjian to create an ISO from a disc that you have by using DVDShrink.

Open ImgBurn and choose Mode -> Build, or use the Ctrl+Alt+B option. This opens Build Mode and you will see this screen. From here, you can add/remove files or folders to your ISO. You can choose to type the folder location in the drop down box, or browse for files/folders via the icons on the right. By pressing the disc icon, highlighted in the red box, you can choose the Output mode to save your ISO. This Output mode is save to hard disc. You need to choose a destination folder on one of your hard discs. This Output mode is save to CD/DVD disc As you change between save to CD/DVD and Save to Hard Disc, the Device tab is no longer shown on the GUI. You can choose to change the Output at the top of the GUI if you prefer . As you add files/folders, you can check the size of the ISO by pressing the Calculator. It will indicate the size of the disc you need as you build. Check the 'Auto' checkbox and this will be done automatically as you add files/folders to the list. The Device tab is not shown in save to Hard Disc Output mode From the Options tab you can choose the file system you wish to use. Choose the file system you wish to use from the dropdown. ISO9660 is the original one that's been around for years and has quite limited functionality. For Example: You're limited to 8.3 characters for a file name (i.e. SOMEDOCU.TXT) You're limited to all uppercase file names. You're limited to file less than 4GB in size. Joliet is an extension of ISO9660 and allows for longer / mixed case file names. The file size limit still applies. For Joliet to be used, ISO9660 must also be present - this is reflected in the options available. UDF is a file system in it's own right and does not depend on another one also being present. UDF supports long / mixed case file names and does NOT have the 4GB file size limit of Joliet and ISO9660. It is the 'better' option for those people using up-to-date operating system. I say 'up-to-date' because older ones like Windows 95 and 98 cannot read / understand the UDF file system and will probably report the disc as being corrupt if that's the only one on it. Standalone DVD players are only supposed to (made to) understand UDF. Being able to read ISO9660 / Joliet is optional. As such, if you're building a DVD Video disc, you at least want to make sure the UDF filesystem is present in any image you're building / burning. A typical DVD Video disc you buy from a shop will use 'ISO9660 + UDF', so to be totally correct, that's what you should use too. That way, a standalone player can read it (due to UDF) and PC's with old operating systems can read it (due to ISO9660). A new operating system can read both but will favour UDF because it's more advanced. Create Layer Break Position If you are using ImgBurn's Build Mode to make Double Layer DVD Video discs, during the build you will see this window. There is a rating system at the bottom which indicates the best Layer Break choice. Where you have multiple options showing the same LBA address, these just represent Cells that are reused in various PGC's. It's quite possible for each of these entries to be given a different rating, so you may have to think a little bit and average the options out. i.e. if you have a single 'Very Good' entry and then 5 with the same LBA where 1 is ranked as 'Excellent' and the other 4 are 'Average', go for the 'Very Good' entry on its own. From the Labels tab you can give your iso the name you want it to have. Volume Identifiers These fields are used to fill out certain structures within the filesystem. Their content is almost never seen and what you put in them has no real effect on anything. Typically you'd just leave them blank. The progress bar is updated so that it represents the number of characters you've typed in, and how many the field actually allows for. The text colour changes from green to orange to red as you start to run out of available characters. Advanced: Dates Here you can adjust / override the dates and time associated with files and folders. You can also set the dates / times associated with the image as a whole. If no date / time is specified, it will typically use the current system time - unless otherwise specified - i.e. where it says it'll use the existing file time. The dates and times of files are what you see in explorer when you look at the created / modified dates and times. To override the default values, just check (tick) the checkbox, select the date from the calendar control and the time from the time control (you need to actually type numbers into that one). Media This applies to those people building to an ISO image rather than burning on the fly to a disc. When burning to a disc, these values are retrieved from the media in the drive and certain assumptions are made based upon it's format (i.e. double layer or single layer, dvd+r or dvd-r etc). When you're building an ISO image, the program needs to know the maximum amount of data (sectors) you want in the image before the program should consider it a 'double layer' image and start looking for layer breaks and stuff (* if it's a DVD Video style image). The profiles can be used to take a standard value for either DVD-R or DVD+R format media. If you want to enter your own value (i.e. if you like to overburn), select Custom and type it in manually. When the amount of data in your image exceeds the 'Single Layer - Maximum Sectors' value, the 'Double Layer' values come into play. You need to ensure the correct profile is (or custom values are) selected here so that your image is built correctly for the discs you intend to burn to. Restrictions All file systems have their limitations. Sometimes these can be 'tweaked' slightly to suit your needs. The 'Level X' values are where allowable lengths are taken to the extreme and represent the maximum values possible. There is no guarantee the images produced using 'Level X' relaxed restrictions will be readable. 'Allow Full ASCII Character Set' can be used to override the ISO9660 limitation of only allowing 'A...Z', '0...9' and '_' characters in file names. 'Don't Add ';1' Version Number To Files' can be used to ImgBurn to go against the ISO9660 specifications and not append ';1' to the end of all file names. I honestly have no idea where this would be useful, but other burning tools include the option and so I'll just go along with them! Bootable Disc: Make Image Bootable can be checked if you want to make a bootable image. That's to say, one that you can have boot up in the same fashion a bootable floppy disc does, before the operating system kicks in. This type of feature is typically seen on recovery discs and will often be used by those people who choose not to have a floppy drive installed in their new PC. Once enabled, select the emulation type for the boot image you've already prepared. So for example, if you've created your image by reading a bootable floppy disc, you'd probably select '1.44Mb Floppy Disc'. You then point 'Boot Image' at your bootable image file. (This can be created via the method explained below). 'Create Boot Image' can be used to read a bootable floppy disc to an image, or extract an existing boot image from a bootable CD. You just need to select the source drive and then click on the picture of the floppy disc. It'll ask you for a name for the image and then start creating it. It's is this type of image that the above mentioned 'Boot Image' option would point to.

3) Thanks for listening! Re. (4), ToDoList does it like this..... a) you can specify the ini file to use on the commandline using the -i switch. b ) you can simply drop an empty text file named todolist.ini in the same directory as todolist.exe c) same as (b ). but put it anywhere provided you use a shortcut to start todolist and you specify the starting folder in the shortcut properties. Then implement a startup search as follows: 1) If -i option then use that ini file. If it does not exist then create it. 2) Look in the "current directory" (set with the "start in:" option in short cut) for the "ToDoList.ini" file. If found then use it. 3) Look in the EXE directory for the "ToDoList.ini" file. If found then use it 4) If no INI file found via above search then look for registry key. (HKCU/Software/AbstractSpoon/ToDoList) 5) If none of above was found then popup dialog asking what to use. If not all ini settings are present, then I would just use the defaults. How does that sound ?

I might be wrong but it sounds to me like FARMER is trying to select a file to burn with ImgBurn..... If so, it needs to be a file format recognised by ImgBurn, if its not it won't see it in the folder your looking in. If you change the "supported files" to "all files" does it show up then ? If so you need to create a file type like .iso etc for ImgBurn to be able to burn it for you. Shrink can do this as can <spits> Nero..... (I think - never used the POS)

Mate, you really need to do some reading on the basics of DVD authoring and how DVDs function. CD and DVD burning (and shortly, basic ISO and DVD creation) is what the support is here for. More advanced topics like adding menus (which have nothing to do with this software) are outside the scope of this forum as the software used probably has its own support base. (Why should we be the ones troubleshooting problems with commercial software like Nero, TPMGEnc or other authoring packages? If you?ve paid for a product, you are entitled to use the support allocated for it by the owners of said software). That said, the problem isn?t necessarily with the software you?re using but more the way you?re using it. You can?t create a set of IFO files for your movie and another set of IFOs for your menus and expect it to work without tying them together. IFO files contain basic instructions on where certain information can be found like languages, sound and your movie files. This is what commercial packages like ULead DVD Author do. They create sets of instructions that your software and also your DVD player can read and understand. If you want to create your own movies, menus, background graphics with background music etc.. this is what you need.

Hey db, I'm inclined to go with option 1 in that the app' i used to create the file was the cause of the problem. I switched to an alternative method to create the files for the burns that were sucsessful. As for using RW media for testing purposes, It never crossed my mind but something i shall implement forth with. That said re-writable media is something i do not posses and really know nothing about as I've never used it. What would you recommend in that department.

I don't mean to go against the flow although I appear to be from the other related posts (and expect some flak for my troubles ), and I certainly think Imgburn is a fine piece of software (so don't get me wrong). I believe that many people would pay/donate (whichever way you wish to go) good money for a small, fast, simple, efficient piece of CD/DVD burner software which does all of the basics with not too much fluff around the edges (I am one of those people). Any CD/DVD burner app should support multi-session support, simply because that is a feature that the media offers. My needs for a CD/DVD burner app are quite simple, with support required for: - Burn images (ISO is fine for me, although other popular image formats would be a bonus) - Burn files/folders (including multi-session support) - Burn to multiple recorders simultaneously - Queue feature for burns - Decent GUI for easy/informative user interaction - Ability to burn CD Audio, Video CD, and DVD Video discs (When using Neroto burn DVD Video discs, it appears that simply burning the relevant files in a root folder named "VIDEO_TS" is sufficient) - Create image from CD/DVD - Copy CD/DVD (one or more copies to one or more burners). Easy way to implement would be to use the functionality from Create image feature, and then use other in-built functionality to burn it in required manner. Imgburn already supports (or will do with the next release) most of the above with the exception of the following: - Multi-session support for burning files/folders to CD's/DVD's - Burn support for CD Audio and Video CD - Create image - Copy CD/DVD With all these features added, Imgburn could be used as a sole CD/DVD burning app (and Nero et. al could be removed) . In reverse order.... You answered the second part of your (most likely, rhetorical) question yourself - Packet writing tools are awful! DVD-RAM's OK (and will be more than OK when it's possible for 16x burns), but there are still times when RW discs may be preferable (eg. burning DivX/XviD to test the quality of an encoded file on a standalone player - most players do not support DVD-RAM) This is OK initially, and I am grateful for your efforts (yes there is going to be a "but" ), but I (and I'm sure plenty of others) would be appreciative if you could find the time and effort to implement the other features. I don't know how many/much donations you have received, but I wouldn't have thought it to be too much (due to the human race being inherently cheapskate - if they don't have to pay for something, they won't!). If you made Imgburn a 30-day trial shareware by default, and then charged a very reasonable ?5 or ?10, I don't think many people would complain, or jump ship since it is quality software. Anyway, I've said my piece and if that still doesn't convince you then I'll rest my case. BTW, would it be OK to PM you since I have something I'd like to discuss which is not for public consumption at this time ?

Hey guys, I've burned the files again, this time successful. I've tried to recover the original file(unsuccessfully) so i can't tell if they were corrupt or not. This time i used an alternative method to create the .ISO file for burning, hence the success i presume. I'll use the original app' for the next couple of burns and see what happens, but can i ask if there is any way to check the integrity of the file before burning...?

if your using version 1.3.0.0 ( which you should be as its the latest version ), goto TOOLS>SETTINGS>EVENTS and check the "SAVE THE LOG" box , and UNCHECK the "OVERWRITE EXISTING" box . this will allow you to automatically save all the logs you create . to view a previous log file, goto the view button and make sure theres a check againts "View Log" , this will display the main log window, and from there you can view previous logs by clicking FILE>OPEN. if you didnt already have the SAVE THE LOG checked , now is a good time to do it whilst your having these problems . ideally ,next time you try a burn on DL. post the main log file for us

Until Lightning_UK! releases the new version of ImgBurn, you?re going to have to do it the old fashioned way. 2 ways actually. 1. Download ImgTool *CLASSIC* from www.coujo.de. Create a folder called VIDEO_TS somewhere on your HD and then copy the VOB, BUP and IFO files to it and point ImgTool at the folder to create an ISO image. 2. Download DVD Shrink from http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_so.../dvd_shrink.cfm and OPEN FILES from the tools menu and hit BACKUP. The options window that appears will allow you to create an ISO image. Both tools are free but donations are appreciated. If you grab ImgTool ***CLASSIC*** from CouJo?s site, say hi for me.

THX for your quick reply! >/info - this would need another file name passed to it That would not disturb me at all >/erase So ImgBurn will automatically use a quick erase if possible? >/retries 20 is OK! But it just had not worked for me. Within a test (extra using a bad DVD+RW) the program prompted me for each retry manually? But I will check it again... >/log is do-able... That would be great! >...tell if a formatted +rw is empty That's a pity! But if /info would work, I could leave this hard part for you? One more question: As the IBG file may not be used, could you create a file with similar content in a 'free format'? For me as a programmer it is hard to see that this information is available, but I'm not allowed to use it...

ive used imgburn to sucessfully create a few backups already but now when i open the program i get a mesage on the bottom saying "No Devices Detected!" ive tried to re-search for devices but its not getting anything, and therefore not letting me burn any img files.

if I create an image with another program and I put it to burn with ImgBurn, will ImgBurn automatically turn into a DVD-ROM thing?

This is my first post and the question is probably so basic to you all that I'm embarrassed to ask it but I HAVE checked various forums and guides and I can't find the answer spelled out. I've used Shrink and Imgburn to create a number of DVD's and I now wish to burn a copy. The files are saved in a VIDEO_TS format and Imgburn tells me I have to create a disk image first. Is this an ISO file? How do I do it? Any help would be much appreciated. Regards