Burner problem with WindowsXP

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Frank Martin

I have been using WindowsXP to burn CDs successfully for a long time.

Recently the system does not work and I get a "System Error" when I try to
drop files into the CD icon in Windows explorer.

Yet when I use the Nero CD burner software, everything is OK.

Is there any way to fix the WindowsXP burning method, because I prefer its
simpler approach.

Please help, Frank
 
Hi,

You can use one or the other, but not both. Too many conflicts. If you
reenable the imapi burning service (the native program), then you must
disable Nero (and as it is far more functional, you may want to rethink
this).

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
Frank Martin said:
Many thanks for this. But how does one enable/disable imapi & Nero.

Regards Frank
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Hi,the imapi burning service is located in admin tools> services, right click on it and select properties. I also use Nero and have imapi set to manual with no problems.
 
Hi Frank,

Start/run msconfig.

Nero you will find on the startup tab.
Imapi burning is on the services tab.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
||| "Frank Martin"
<http://www.microsoft.com/communities/privacy.mspx>
||| wrote in message ||| I have been using WindowsXP to burn CDs successfully for a
||| long time.
|||
||| Recently the system does not work and I get a "System Error"
||| when I try to drop files into the CD icon in Windows
||| explorer.
|||
||| Yet when I use the Nero CD burner software, everything is OK.
|||
||| Is there any way to fix the WindowsXP burning method, because
||| I prefer its simpler approach.


|| "Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" <[email protected]>
|| wrote in message || Hi,
||
|| You can use one or the other, but not both. Too many
|| conflicts. If you reenable the imapi burning service (the
|| native program), then you must disable Nero (and as it is far
|| more functional, you may want to rethink this).


| "Frank Martin"
<http://www.microsoft.com/communities/privacy.mspx
| wrote in message | Many thanks for this. But how does one enable/disable imapi &
| Nero.

For two different methods to turn off the Microsoft Windows XP
CD writing feature see the following Microsoft Knowledge Base
article.

KB325218 - Files Are Displayed in the Staging Folder When You
Search a CD-RW Drive
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?Product=winxp&scid=kb;en-us;325218
 
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