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RE: Vista DVD burning suddenly takes a vacation?
I believe I am having a similar problem. How did you clear the cache? Thanks
"jimmuh" wrote:
> And the answer is (apparently / possibly) a corrupted cache. I looked into
> the burning cache location and found only a partial listing of the files I
> had designated for the burn. I deleted them manually, rebooted the system,
> and burning returned to normal behavior. I'm not sure, but it appears that
> the cache was not cleared after a previous burn was performed. I think I'll
> just set the wizard to stay up so that I can manually click on the Finish
> button after finishing a burn to see if that will keep this from happening
> again.
>
> "jimmuh" wrote:
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> > Frankly, I've thought the inbuilt DVD/CD burning features of Windows XP and
> > Vista have always been pretty flaky. The whole thing just doesn't look to me
> > as though it was designed by someone who actually wanted it to work, what
> > with the various balloon messages about seeing files that are ready to be
> > burned and the series of little dialog boxes. But the past couple of days the
> > feature doesn't even work badly any more. I stick a blank DVD-R disc in the
> > drive, the dialog pops up to ask me whether I want to use WMP or Windows to
> > burn files to the disc. I choose to use Windows, I get to designate the files
> > I want burned, and the disc image creation progress bar comes up. But that
> > process, after going on for several minutes, just wanders off into la-la land
> > and quits. The Explorer Window and the dialog box just go away. No error
> > messages, no nothing.
> >
> > Has anyone else seen this on Vista Business RTM?
> >
> > The only disc burning related installation I have done on this computer is
> > to install IsoRecorder, which works just fine, BTW.
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